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Alberta court certified class action lawsuit against Treadz Auto Group
Calgary (January 7, 2020) – The Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta certified the class action lawsuit against the car consignment company Treadz Auto and its owner Sean Patrick O’Brien on December 20, 2019. The civil lawsuit alleges that O’Brien defrauded dozens of...
Local businessman is facing dozens of fraud related charges
Sudbury (November 7, 2019) – The local businessman from Sudbury, David Murray, is facing dozens of fraud related charges. After a number of complaints, the Greater Sudbury Police arrested and charged the owner of EcoLife Home Improvements Inc. with 22 counts of fraud...
Sudbury Real Estate Board warns against rental scam connected to Prop2Go.com
Sudbury (October 29, 2019) – The Sudbury Real Estate Board issued a warning against an alleged rental scam connected to the website Prop2Go.com. The association suspects that rental listings on the website are copied from the brokerage’s real estate ‘for sale’...
Used car salesman defrauds 14 customers over two years by selling cars he never delivered
Dartmouth (October 8, 2019) – Used car salesman, Michael David Surette, duped 14 customers between 2015 and 2018 by selling cars he never delivered. The total amount the customers of the Used Car Factory 21 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia were defrauded of adds up to...
Woman made up craft show, now charged with fraud
Oshawa (September 30, 2019) – Marci Thackeray, a woman, who made up a craft show in Oshawa is now arrested and charged with fraud. The Durham Regional Police informed in a press release about five victims who allegedly had been defrauded by the 33-year-old while...
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(August 30, 2019) – After Telus customers were impacted by an email outage, they now are being targeted by fraudsters impersonating Telus employees. Global News reported that Telus customers have complained about fraudulent calls after Telus informed their customers...
Additional charges for autograph-fraudster as more victims come forward
Edmonton (August 28, 2019) – The Edmonton Police laid additional charges against Chandra Vinesh Singh in connection with selling Connor McDavid jerseys with fraudulent autographs online as more victims came forward. The 23-year-old was already charged with fraud and...
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Mississauga (August 27, 2019) – The Peel Regional Police informs about the arrest of the suspect in a series of frauds in the city of Mississauga, on August 24. The suspect is Thomas Henry Ogden. He was wanted on an arrest warrant for allegedly defrauding four...
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Surrey (August 09, 2019) – The Surrey boat dealership Breakwater Marine is under a fraud investigation. The RCMP’s Economic Crime Unit arrested one person and seized numerous boats while executing a search warrant, police said on Twitter. The authorities believe there...
Oblique Toronto contractor sentenced to almost four years in prison for defrauding customers
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Toronto (July 30, 2019) – Adam Gardin was sentenced to almost four years in prison under Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act on July 26, 2019. He was also ordered to pay more than $850,000 in restitution according to the Ontario Provincial Offences court. Furthermore,...
Police warn of SIM-swapping scam after three incidents in Edmonton
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Mar. 27 2019 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - As Fraud Prevention Month draws to a close, Edmonton police are warning of a new scam that recently popped up in the city: SIM swapping. SIM cards, also known as subscriber identification modules, are used by cellphone carriers to...
Support worker who stole from the elderly arrested again for fraud, theft: police
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Feb. 37, 2019 - A Burlington personal support worker who was already facing charges for stealing from elderly, police say, has been re-arrested for fraud and theft. The woman was taken into custody on Feb. 20 and charged with fraud under $5,000, two counts of...
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Jan. 10 2019 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) -The Better Business Bureau is warning people shopping for a new puppy to be aware of a potential fraudster claiming to offer a free puppy to a good home. "It does seem to be affecting people from all across Canada," said Kristin...
CRTC launches new protections against fraudlent Calls
by Marina Burghard | Dec 20, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Featured
Dec. 20, 2018 (Courtesy of NationalPost.com) - Canadians will soon have greater protection from scam phone calls. Today, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that service providers must apply additional levels of protection to shield...
Online scam uses fake endorsements from Canadian media personalities to sell products
by Marina Burghard | Dec 14, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Cybercrime, Featured, Online Fraud
Dec. 14, 2018 (Courtesy of ctvnews.ca) - Lisa LaFlamme is not quitting her job to sell skincare products. Neither is Marilyn Denis or Melissa Grelo. But bogus online ads using fake endorsements from several Canadian media personalities have left many shoppers...
OCS warns customers of data accessed in Canada Post breach
by Marina Burghard | Nov 7, 2018 | Consumer Fraud, Featured, Online Fraud
Nov. 7, 2018 ( Courtesy of citynews.ca) - The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) said the shipping information of some of its customers was accessed by an outside source through the Canada Post delivery tracking tool. In a letter sent to the customers on Wednesday, the OCS...
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The most bizarre US election ever has cruelly exposed the final two candidates as a warmongering corporate puppet against a racist bigot, really the best choice the system could produce? The shadow government of bankers and corporate kingmakers had their paid for Democrat candidate, but it will be now busy getting to grips influencing the incoming administration, according to Keith Lambe, columnist for Capital
The voting public rejected the establishment choice, a similar shock having taken place weeks earlier with ‘Brexit’ vote in the UK. People have used their vote to protest against a longstanding global political and economic system that has failed the vast majority.It is a paradigm that has eroded their living standards,destroyed jobs and working conditions and waged permanent war for resources and profit.The majority have taken the blame for systemic failure while they have watched the rich grow outrageously richer through criminal strategies like tax avoidance agreements.Populists like Donald Trump in the United States, Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom and Jean Marie Le Pen in France have declared themselves to be the authentic voice of their people.As a result, the political pendulum is making a huge swing to the far right.Despite impending trade wars, the virtual dictatorships of Russia and China should be comfortable with the new zeitgeist,more in line with their own outlooks. Turkey, Poland, Holland, Hungary and France are voting against their status quo.
The neoliberal experiment ushered in nearly forty years ago in Thatcher’s Britain, copied in Reagans’ US, and globalized through banking,financial and trade deregulation,is being swept away by a tsunami of angry populism. What are the origins of this perfect storm striking at almost the same time in so many different places? Like fascism and communism of the last century which rejected the traditional imperial monarchies rule around the world, who are the world’s voters now turning their anger to? The imperial like self-declared ‘elite’of super-rich bankers and corporations who meet each year at Davos and Bilderberg conferences to plan economic and political reality for the majority of the world’s population. Their previously behind the scenes surreptitious manipulation of the world’s politicians has been brought to public attention by non-traditional media and ‘hacktivists’, and people do not like what is being planned for them.
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and nations will accept the New World Order” David Rockerfeller said at the UN Business Conference on September 14th 1994.In his book ‘Memoirs’ launched in 2002, he even went further by stating : “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists, conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure; one world if you will. If that’s the charge I stand guilty and I’m proud of it”.“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws” said Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.
What is this new vision for global humanity? Who is behind it, and how do they intend to bring it to fruition? The answers to these questions have always been in plain sight, yet hidden by a mainstream media charged with diverting attention from this overarching blueprint.
A one world government, without national boundaries, competition or sovereign laws, only subject to the control of an international banking and business ‘elite’? Does it sound more like the dystopian nightmare of Huxley’s Brave New World, or an Orwellian fantasy? How could such an audacious plan become reality? If the evidence being amassed by alternative media suggests, then plans for this global governance by the’elite’ so long in development are nearing completion. The rise of right wing nationalistic governments are a direct challenge to this end product of neoliberal globalized doctrine.Rockefeller’s vision of global governance is entering an age of ‘New World Disorder’.
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Brainwashing our youngsters is a serious matter. The people responsible for the Department of Education's proposal ought to be summarily fired.
Academic Stupidity and Brainwashing
by Walter Williams | Sep 18, 2019 | Education
Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University. They hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their “labor” rather than their writing ability. The professor that American University hired to teach that nonsense is Asao B. Inoue, who is a professor and associate dean in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He is also the director of the university’s writing center. Inoue believes that a person’s writing ability should not be assessed, in order to promote “anti-racist” objectives. Inoue taught American University’s faculty members that their previous practices of grading writing promoted white language supremacy. Inoue thinks that students should be graded on the effort they put into a project.
The idea to bring such a professor to American University, where parents and students fork over $48,459 a year in tuition charges, could not have been something thought up by saner members of its academic community. Instead, it was probably the result of deep thinking by the university’s diversity and campus life officials. Inoue’s views are not simply extreme but possibly hostile to the academic mission of most universities. Forgiving and ignoring a students’ writing ability would mostly affect black students. White students’ speaking and writing would be judged against the King’s English, defined as standard, pure or correct English grammar.
Professor Noam Chomsky, called the father of modern linguistics, formulated the generative theory of language. According to his theory, the most basic form of language is a set of syntactic rules that is universal for all humans and that underlies the grammar of all human languages. We analyze and interpret our environment with words and sentences in a structured language. Oral and written language provides a set of rules that enables us to organize thoughts and construct logical meaning with our thoughts.
Not holding students accountable to proper grammar does a disservice to those students who overall show poor writing abilities. When or if these students graduate from college, they are not going to be evaluated in their careers by Inoue’s tailored standards. They will be judged according to their objective abilities, and it probably follows that if they fail to meet those objective standards, the standards themselves will be labeled as racist.
There’s another very dangerous bit of academic nonsense happening, this time at the K-12 level of education. One America News Network anchor interviewed Mary Clare Amselem, education specialist at the Heritage Foundation, about the California Department of Education’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum. The proposed ethnic studies curriculum would teach children that capitalism and father figures are racist.
The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum also includes gross anti-Israel bias and teaches about a Palestinian-led anti-Israel initiative called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. The curriculum also has students study issues of police brutality and asks teachers to find incidents of bias by police in their own communities. According to an article by Shelby Talcott in The Stream, California’s proposed curriculum called for students to study lawmakers such as Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, both of whom have supported the BDS movement and have been accused of anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The proposed ethnic studies proposal has been removed from the California Department of Education website. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said, “While I am relieved that California made the obvious decision to revisit this wholly misguided proposal, we need to know why and how a blatantly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, factually inaccurate curriculum made its way through the ranks of California’s Department of Education.” He added, “This was not simply an oversight — the California Department of Education’s attempt to institutionalize anti-Semitism is not only discriminatory and intolerant, it’s dangerous.”
Brainwashing our youngsters is a serious matter. The people responsible for the California Department of Education’s proposal ought to be summarily fired.
About Walter Williams
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. In 1980, he joined the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and is currently the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics. He is also the author of Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? and Up from the Projects: An Autobiography. Williams participates in many debates and conferences, is a frequent public speaker and often gives testimony before both houses of Congress. This editorial was made available through Creator's Syndicate.
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Is police brutality an issue in NH?
AGAINST | Read My Position
"Police brutality is not an issue in New Hampshire."
Source: Citizens Count Issue Survey 2018
Should NH legalize the recreational use of marijuana?
UNDECIDED | Read My Position
"I am undecided on this issue."
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
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"I support stricter gun control laws."
Economy, Budget and Taxes
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"I oppose New Hampshire adding a broad-based sales tax."
Should New Hampshire government do more to increase the supply of affordable housing?
"New Hampshire government should do more to increase the supply of affordable housing."
Should New Hampshire increase subsidies and tax credits for business investment?
Should NH create a paid family and medical leave insurance plan, paid for with a percentage of employee wages?
"Yes, I do believe that New Hampshire should implement a paid family medical leave insurance program. The program should offer leave to workers who have recently become parents and those who are dealing with serious health conditions."
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Should NH raise the minimum wage?
"New Hampshire should have minimum wage legislation and not be dependent on the federal default level. I would support raising the minimum wage in New Hampshire to $10 an hour with graduated increases over time, consistent with labor market forces."
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"I oppose New Hampshire adding an income tax on earned income."
Should New Hampshire allocate tax revenues for private and home schooling costs?
"I oppose allocating tax revenues for private and/or home schooling costs."
Should NH continue to administer statewide standards-based student assessments?
"I support New Hampshire continuing to administer statewide standards-based student assessments."
Should New Hampshire maintain the renewable portfolio standard, which requires public utilities in New Hampshire to obtain a certain percentage of electricity from renewable energy sources (25% by 2025)?
"I support the renewable portfolio standard in New Hampshire."
Should New Hampshire continue to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which requires utilities to purchase allowances for every ton of carbon they emit?
"I support New Hampshire’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative."
Should New Hampshire ban abortion after 20 weeks gestation, with exceptions for cases of rape/incest and health complications?
"I strongly support a women's right to choose. The government should not interfere with women's reproductive choices or their health decisions which can be difficult and life altering."
Was New Hampshire right to continue expanded Medicaid eligibility, using the traditional Medicaid system of managed care instead of private insurance?
"I support expanded Medicaid eligibility, using the traditional Medicaid system of managed care instead of private insurance."
Should NH increase funding for heroin treatment programs?
"I support increased funding for heroin treatment programs."
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"I do not support voter suppression in any form, however, voters should vote in the state that they currently reside."
Should NH limit terms for elected officials?
"I support term limits for New Hampshire elected officials."
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"While I believe that there should be immigration laws and we should abide by them, I do not support family separation or holding individuals, children or families in substandard facilities or indefinite periods of time."
HB 109 (2019) - Requires commercial sales and transfers of firearms to take place through licensed dealers. Those dealers are required to perform background checks. Also requires private sales or transfers to go through a licensed firearm dealer, if it’s not absolutely clear that both the owner and the recipient are allowed to own guns. - Voted to expand firearm background checks
HB 455 (2019) - Changes the penalty for any offense eligible for the death penalty to life imprisonment without parole. - Voted to repeal death penalty
HB 481 (2019) - Legalizes and taxes marijuana for adults over age twenty-one. A Cannabis Control Commission, similar to the Liquor Commission, would be responsible for licensing and enforcement. The bill also allows limited home-growing of marijuana for personal use. - Voted against legalizing marijuana
HB 514 (2019) - Establishes a seven day waiting period for the delivery of a firearm. There are some exceptions for rifle or shotgun purchases by hunters, law enforcement officers, and members of the armed forces. The Senate amended the bill, shortening the waiting period to three days. - Voted for a three-day waiting period
HB 564 (2019) - Makes it a misdemeanor to carry a firearm in a safe school zone. ˙There are some exceptions, for example if a person gets permission from the school board. The House amended the bill so that parents do not need to remove or unload firearms in their cars when picking up students. The amendment also specifically bans firearms on "school property" rather than in "school zones." School property includes buildings, grounds, school buses, and vans. A conference committee of representatives and senators amended the bill so that the school board may only give permission for a person to carry a firearm after holding a public hearing. - Voted to ban firearms on school property
SB 1 (2019) - Establishes a paid family and medical leave insurance program, which would be run by the state department of employment security. Employers would pay 0.5% of wages per employee as premium payments. Employees could take up to twelve weeks of leave and receive 60% of their pay after paying into the program for at least six months. The bill does not allow anyone to opt-out of the program. - Excused/Did not vote
SB 10 (2019) - Increases the minimum wage to $10 per hour in 2020, then to $11 in 2022, except starting that year, employers would have to pay at least $12 per hour if they do not offer at least 10 paid sick days to employees. The House and Senate amended the bill to raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour in 2020 and $12 per hour in 2022, regardless of sick time. - Voted to raise the minimum wage
HB 1 (2019) - 2020-2021 state budget bill. - Voted for state budget bill
HB 2 (2019) - 2020-2021 state budget bill (part 2). - Voted for state budget bill (part 2)
HB 558 (2019) - Prohibits food service businesses from providing a single-use plastic straw to a customer unless specifically requested. - Excused/Did not vote
HB 365 (2019) - Increases the electric generating capacity of customer generators who may participate in net energy metering, generally from 1 megawatt to 5 megawatts. - Excused/Did not vote
SB 290 (2019) - Modifies the work and community engagement requirements for the Granite Advantage Health Care Program, commonly known as expanded Medicaid. For example, this bill extends the work requirement exemption for parents so that parents of children under age 13 are eligible for the exemption. This bill also gives the Department of Health and Human Services the authority to waive the work requirement until July 2021 if there is an inability to communicate with program participants. - Voted to ease work requirements for expanded Medicaid
HB 105 (2019) - Generally repeals the voter registration changes passed in SB 3. For example, this bill removes the stricter requirements for voters who register within 30 days of an election. This bill also removes much of the new language on voter registration forms about domicile. This bill also removes the authority of the secretary of state to conduct post-election voter registration investigations, leaving that to the attorney general. - Voted to repeal stricter voter registration requirements
HB 706 (2019) - Establishes a fifteen member independent redistricting commission, appointed by the secretary of state after a public application process that includes input from legislative leaders. The Senate amended the bill, generally giving the Secretary of State less say in the process. - Voted for independent redistricting commission
HB 446 (2019) - Allows an individual to obtain a new birth certificate based on a change of gender identity, as certified by a licensed health care provider. At the time of this bill's submission, a court order is required to change a birth certificate. This bill also allows a gender identity of nonbinary on a birth certificate. The Senate amended the bill, for example to require the permission of a parent or guardian if a minor seeks a birth certificate change. - Excused/Did not vote
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Developer Seeks Rezoning to Build Nine-Story Building in Crown Heights
ULURP • Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Rendering of proposed Development at 979-985 Pacific Street Image Credit: City Planning
Community Board and Borough President in agreement about a slightly smaller zoning designation. On January 8, 2020, the City Planning Commission heard an application by EMP Capital Group to rezone a portion of two blocks fronting on the corner of Grand Avenue and Pacific Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The rezoning would help facilitate the development of a nine-story mixed-use building at 979-985 Pacific Street. The applicant is represented by Richard Lobel of Sheldon Lobel P.C.
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City Planning Hears Application for Major Development Across the Street from Essex Crossing
ULURP • Lower East Side, Manhattan
Rending of the development along Broome Street Image Credit: City Planning
New development on Lower East Side set to transform the entire Broome Street corridor. On December 4, 2019, the City Planning Commission heard an application by Go Broome LLC and the Chinatown Planning Council HDFC to rezone and develop a large-scale, mixed-use development on the Lower East Side. The proposed development includes mixed-income housing, affordable senior housing, program and office space for the Chinese American Planning Council, congregation space for the landmarked Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue, and commercial retail space.
Tags : Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue, Chinese American Planning Council, City Planning Commission, Commissioner Anna Hayes Levin, Department of City Planning, Essex Crossing, Go Broome Street, Kenneth J. Knuckles, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer
City Planning Hears Application for Residential Development with a 250 Seat Theater in Astoria
ULURP • Astoria, Queens
Rendering of Proposed Development Image Credit: City Planning
The proposed zoning actions seek not only to facilitate the development but also bring block’s current uses in conformance. On December 4, 2019, the City Planning Commission heard an application by Mega LLC and the Pancyprian Association of American to rezone and redevelop an entire block in Astoria, Queens. The applicants proposed two eight-story buildings connected at the ground floor level with a green space between the buildings. The development includes affordable housing components and the creation of a new theater for the Pancyprian Association. Nora Martins from Akerman LLP and Emanuel Kokinakis from Mega LLC presented the application.
Tags : Astoria, Pancyprian Association, Pistilli Grand Manor, Queens, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, Steinway
City Planning Approves Application for Open Space and Resilient Housing on Sandy Affected Properties
Build-It-Back Housing Recovery • Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island
Image Credit: NYC HPD
The City uses ingenuity to make use of City owned spaces in flood plain. On September 25, 2019 City Planning unanimously approved an application to facilitate the construction of resilient housing and create open spaces on 141 city-owned properties, purchased in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The properties involved sustained a level of storm and flood damage equal to at least half their respective value.
City Planning Approves Modified Plans for Redevelopment of Harlem Church
Rezoning • Harlem, Manhattan
Rendering of Proposed La Hermosa Building with Modifications/Image Credit: Department of City Planning/CPC
The proposed building would house the redeveloped La Hermosa Church, community facilities, and residential units. On October 15, 2019, the City Planning Commission voted to approve an application to develop a new 29-story tower-on-a-base mixed-use building at 5 West 110th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. The site is currently occupied by La Hermosa Church, a three-story brick throughway building, and the church’s parking lot. To facilitate the new 226,000 square feet development, the applicants would propose to demolish the existing church building. The project would redevelop La Hermosa Church and build a music hall, music school, and approximately 160 housing units. The Church is the project applicant and site owner.
Tags : 5 West 110th Street, City Planning Commission, Department of City Planning, FX Collaborative, Harlem, Herrick Feinstein, La Hermosa Church, Manhattan, Rezoning
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National tour of ‘Mean Girls’ at Playhouse Square is entertaining, but it’s not quite ‘fetch’
Karen Smith (Jonalyn Saxer), left, Regina George (Mariah Rose Faith), Gretchen Wieners (Megan Masako Haley) and Cady Heron (Danielle Wade) welcome the holidays in the national touring company production of "Mean Girls" at Playhouse Square through Sunday, Dec. 22. (Photo by Joan Marcus)
By Beth McGee | Special to The Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio — “Mean Girls” the musical (Broadway debut, spring 2018) is adapted from “Mean Girls” the movie (2004, screenplay written by comedy powerhouse Tina Fey), which in turn garnered its ideas from the 2002 self-help tome “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” written by Rosalind Wiseman.
If that genealogy seems just a little too derivative for you, then you’re probably not the demographic to whom this musical is targeted.
Toward that idea, I took a (very) informal poll of some university students about “Mean Girls” the movie. When it premiered, they were all 5 to 10 years old. They didn’t see it in the theater, and yet as teenagers, they watched it, loved it and memorized its most famous lines.
One of them remarked that he “still wears pink on Wednesday” in homage to the film. They can (and do) sit next to people my age in the theater and whisper the lines along with the actors. For them, “Mean Girls” the musical is an exercise in nostalgia, which may be the best way in which to view the show currently onstage at the Connor Palace in Playhouse Square.
Those with nostalgic hearts will not be disappointed with “Mean Girls.” The nefarious Regina George (sung powerfully by Mariah Rose Faith) still rules the roost as the Queen Bee in the alpha clique dubbed “the Plastics.” Her cohorts Gretchen Wieners and Karen Smith still follow her every rule, including one that demands that the three “can only wear sweatpants on Fridays.”
Gretchen is still trying to make “fetch” an adjective rather than a verb, and Karen is still “the dumbest person you’ll ever meet,” played with superb comic dryness by Jonalyn Saxer.
In the story, protagonist Cady Heron, home-schooled by her parents while they worked in Kenya, has been uprooted to North Shore High School in Chicago, where she is forced to choose a social clique through which to navigate high school life. Befriended by two artsy outcasts, the three hatch a plot for Cady to infiltrate the popular girls’ clique and wreak havoc on the high school social order.
The musical’s book, slightly updated for the digital generation, is close to identical to the movie script. A few current political barbs are thrown in for comic relief, and Cady’s artsy friends Janis and Damian (a very fetching Eric Huffman) morph into narrators of this “cautionary tale.”
Some of the script additions feel clunky. Janis and Damian as “social commentators” seem preachy, and their commentary is unnecessary — no one understands injustice more than young people, and as audience members they don’t need adult actors to explain why the “mean girls” in the script are mean and why their actions aren’t something to emulate.
The book’s added plot twist depicting Regina’s body-shaming on social media seems overly demeaning in its presentation: The audience would get the point without the gross projections of her overexposed derriere.
Everything is sung well. Danielle Wade’s vocals soar in “It Roars” and “I See Stars.” Faith is at the top of her game in the show-stopper, “World Burn.”
Would that the music and lyrics had brought something new to the nostalgia party. Most of the songs feel interchangeable, with similar rhythms, melodies and performance volume.
The ballad “What’s Wrong With Me?” is a welcome change in the first act, poignantly sung by Megan Masako Haley as Gretchen. It voices the universal feelings of inferiority felt by women who are bombarded by media images of female perfection. The song is reprised in the second act by Haley and Gaelen Gilliland as Regina’s mother — artfully indicating that feelings of insecurity are not confined to women of the younger generation.
Considering this is the first national tour of “Mean Girls,” Casey Nicholaw’s choreography is surprisingly disappointing. Excepting the tap-danced “advice patter” in the song “Stop,” the choreography in song after song looks like a redundant mixture of African dance moves, hip-hop and high school dance team routines.
But still, “Mean Girls” is entertaining. The ensemble is delightfully diverse and features a welcome assortment of differing female body types (it’s a shame that the men cast in the ensemble weren’t allowed this same body diversity). The adults are played with nuance — Gilliland is a delightfully boozy Mrs. George and Lawrence E. Street has a sly humor as Mr. Duvall.
The set (scene design by Scott Pask and video design by Finn Ross and Adam Young) is a series of smart projections that morph from the pages in Regina’s “Burn Book” to a plain in Kenya, and North Shore High School’s hallway, locker room, classroom and dance hall.
Rolling classroom chair-desks dance in and out of scenes, and with deft 90-degree moves, change the scene from one classroom to another. The projections work best when they appear to be scenes shifting, but they work less when they emulate Facebook “wallpaper” and look busy and distracting.
Gregg Barnes’ costumes are hip, colorful and youthful, but for some reason are flattering on everyone in the ensemble but the character of Regina George. As one of the show’s stars, Faith deserved better and certainly has the physique to wear a well-designed costume with aplomb.
A note to parents: Although your pre-teen may have seen the movie, “Mean Girls” contains dialogue and situations one might not want to explain to a youngster. I’d rate this production PG-13.
McGee is a professor of theater at Case Western Reserve University.
What: The musical with a book by Tina Fey. Music by Jeff Richmond. Lyrics by Nell Benjamin. Based on the Paramount Pictures film. Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw. Part of the KeyBank Broadway Series.
When: Through Sunday, Dec. 22.
Where: Connor Palace, Playhouse Square, Cleveland.
Tickets: $10-$119, at the Playhouse Square Ticket Office, at playhousesquare.org or by calling 216-241-6000.
Approximate running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission.
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Ohio cracks down on lead poisoning cases closed without family contact; local programs cry foul
Updated Jan 11, 2019; Posted Mar 01, 2017
By Rachel Dissell, Brie Zeltner, The Plain Dealer
Ohio Department of Health is cracking down on the closing of lead poisoning cases with out investigators first contacting a family.
(Plain Dealer file)
CLEVELAND, Ohio-- The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) is warning it will no longer accept the "high number" of lead poisoning cases statewide that are never investigated because local health officials fail to contact a child's family.
ODH, which delegates its authority to investigate lead poisoning cases to local health departments, sent letters last month warning lead programs across the state that it expects them to do more to reach parents or guardians.
Read more reaction to the letters the state sent.
Cases that are closed due to "no contact" leave poisoned children without any intervention and leave potentially hazardous homes free to harm more families.
But some local lead programs say the the state is unfairly changing the rules on them.
And worse, they claim, is that the state is retroactively applying new rules to cases that go back more than five years.
By law, lead investigations are required when a child's blood test results reach 10 micrograms per deciliter of lead or above.
ODH guidelines have long required at least three attempts to reach a family before a case can be closed.
Now the state appears to be tightening up when it will allow these "no contact" closures, outlining steps it says the local health departments, called delegated authorities, need to document they've taken to find poisoned children.
"The [public health lead investigation protocol] manual states that the investigator shall contact the primary health care provider, Healthchek Coordinator, case manager, or other sources to obtain contact information," the letter reads. If that doesn't work, the letter also says the property owner should be contacted.
But the state's manual doesn't in fact say that. It says investigators "may" contact these sources. It's a subtle difference, but one that local lead program officials say is important.
"Frankly they changed the criteria as to what constitutes evidence to close a case," said John Sobolewski, supervisor of Cuyahoga County's lead program, which investigates cases outside the city of Cleveland. "It's a little overwhelming to try and go back to every case you think you've already addressed and then provide additional information that wasn't required at the time, when we thought they were closed."
An ODH spokeswoman said in an email that the manual hasn't changed and policies and expectations for the delegated authorities remain the same.
(See highlighted portions of the letter and the manual at the bottom of the story.)
More oversight
ODH increased its monitoring last summer with monthly phone calls meant to track how quickly investigators initiated cases and what steps they took to follow up on them.
The latest letters are an extension of that ongoing guidance, spokeswoman Melanie Amato said, to make sure delegated authorities are "taking the necessary steps to make sure children are not living in housing know to have unsafe lead levels."
"No contact" cases are a chronic problem in Cleveland in particular. In 2015, the city asked the state to close 245 of its 351 lead poisoning cases (72 percent) after investigators said they couldn't contact a child's parent or guardian, according to data state officials provided to the city.
Cleveland is still actively working nearly three quarters of the 368 referrals it got from the state last year. Of the roughly 100 cases it has closed, in more than 80 percent were due to an inability to contact a child's parent or guardian.
Below is the range of 'no contact' closures each delegated authority could end with once all 2016 cases are closed.
Canton: 26 % to 47%
Cincinnati: 36% to 46%
Cleveland: 23 % to 57 %
Columbus: 7 % to 22 %
Cuyahoga County: 33 % to 46 %
Toledo-Lucas County: 15% to 48 %
Montgomery County: 0 to 28%
Summit: 3% to 12%
ODH 18 % to 37 %
The below authorities are final percentages 'no contact' closed cases.
Lorain-Elyria: 13 %
Erie County: 0
Franklin County: 0
Hamilton County: 13 %
Muskingham County: 25 %
Richland County: 0
Families often move after a child is poisoned to seek safer housing, due to pressure by a landlord, or because of other financial difficulties. When the health department receives a referral for a poisoned child, it generally also receives a phone number or address provided by a parent at the time the child's blood was tested.
It's unclear, however, what steps Cleveland routinely takes to contact families or property owners.
Officials can ask a judge to issue a warrant for entry to a property suspected to be a lead hazard, though that isn't required before a case is closed and it's rarely done.
Cleveland has the most cases
Still Cleveland, which handles the highest volume of lead poisoning cases in the state, is not the only program to struggle with the problem.
Only 38 percent of the 6,688 lead poisoning referrals statewide resulted in an investigation between 2011 and 2015, though in recent years that's improved. The total number of cases investigated in 2015 statewide improved to a little more than 50 percent, up from 30 percent five years ago.
Failure to contact a family is still the most common reason for a case to remain uninvestigated across the state. More than half of the closed cases for last year so far by Cuyahoga County, Canton and Cincinnati have been "no contact" cases.
And ODH's own investigators fared far worse in contacting Cleveland families when the state stepped in last year to help alleviate some of Cleveland's backlog of more than 3,000 cases.
Of the 119 Cleveland cases ODH agreed to investigate from 2014, only 11 included on-site lead risk assessments. A whopping 108 cases--91 percent-- were closed due to inability to contact the residents, according to state officials.
Cleveland health officials had an in person meeting last month to with state officials to discuss its 2015 and 2016 "no contact" cases, according to Public Health Director Merle Gordon.
The city, she said, is still waiting to hear what rules the state expects it to follow and what additional documentation, if any, they may need to provide in order for ODH to sign off on closing its "no contact" cases.
Are the rules changing? See highlighted passages from Ohio's lead investigation manual and the recent letter sent to some local lead poisoning programs.
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North Carolina Bill Criminalizes Drug-Addicted New Moms
The discredited War on Drugs continues
Carla Murphy Mar 25, 2015 12:19PM ET
Photo Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty
Following a path charted by Tennessee, Republicans in the North Carolina Senate have introduced a bill that would jail pregnant women who are addicted to drugs. The “Prenatal Narcotic Drug Use” bill also applies to mothers of newborns addicted to or harmed by illegal drug use. If passed, advocates are concerned that the law would disproportionately affect women of color and those who are poor.
“It’s going to discourage women from seeking out prenatal care,” Lynn Shoemaker of Women AdvaNCe tells Public News Service. “If women are actually criminalized for this and they’re sitting in jail, how is that helpful? How are they going to provide for their families, for their children?” The new bill, S297, doesn’t address Shoemaker’s questions.
Taking a criminal rather than public health approach to drug-addicted pregnant women or new moms is nothing new, as Colorlines gender columnist Miriam Zoila Pérez pointed out last July. Punitive responses go back to the since-debunked “crack baby epidemic” of the late 80s-early 90s.
What’s different, today, however is that with bipartisan consensus that the War on Drugs is a failure, statehouse bills like S297 appear out of step with reform conversations happening, now, at the federal level. For example, conservatives Newt Gingrich and Pat Nolan have partnered with liberals, Van Jones and Donna Brazile on #Cut50, an initiative to halve the prison population over the next decade.
Oklahoma, which leads the country in female incarceration, is weighing similar punitive legislation to North Carolina’s.
(h/t Public News Service)
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Helpline offers English support, no matter the problem
Jane Hanks
Mon 23 Oct 2017 16h28
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Paris-based SOS Helpline has been offering a friendly ear to English speakers in France for 40 years
For more than 40 years, SOS Helpline has offered an emotional support telephone line in English to the international community in France.
Available for anyone going through a difficult experience and who would like to talk it through with a sympathetic, trained volunteer listener, calls to the helpline are confidential and anonymous.
The service is Paris-based but welcomes calls from anyone, anywhere in the country, every day of the year including bank holidays, from 15.00 to 23.00 and receives 5,000 calls a year.
The calls can come from callers with wide-ranging issues such as loneliness, depression, health concerns, bereavement, money problems, unemployment, difficulties with friends or family, or substance abuse.
Publicity officer Christine Payne says talking to someone who is there to listen can be a big help: “When there is something bothering you, it is always beneficial to be able to express yourself and sometimes that is easiest when you talk to someone who is in no way connected to you.
“Often the caller knows what they should do in their situation, but it makes it easier when they can say it out loud.
“One volunteer likened it to having a load of washing mixed up and in knots inside your head and when you start to talk, it is like teasing the washing out of the machine and unravelling it piece by piece.”
The listeners are trained to be non-judgemental and are there to give callers support. They will not make decisions for the people or give opinions about any decisions. They will not share anything the caller says with other listeners beyond the confidential listening team.
They also have a list of different organisations to offer to the caller if they wish to seek further help.
The association always welcomes new volunteers, as there is a high turnover due to the fact that many of them are only in Paris short-term for work.
There are two intakes for volunteer listeners every year and they are trained by a psychologist.
One volunteer listener, who has not given his name to respect the confidentiality of the service, told Connexion it was not always easy: “Offering false hopes that soon things will get better is unkind and unfair regardless of our best intentions. More often than not, improvements are not near for the caller.
“The better offer is to lend an ear so the callers can express their true emotions and feelings about their circumstances.
“Being heard and having their feelings acknowledged can provide temporary comfort in itself.”
SOS Helpline (soshelpline.org) also raises funds, in particular to pay for training sessions, with twice-yearly book sales. It is a free and confidential service. You can call the helpline on 01 46 21 46 46 all year round.
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Fired contractor claims $1B needed to finish Denver Airport
Kim Slowey @kimslowey
UPDATE: Aug. 16, 2019: Just a few days after being terminated from the Denver International Airport terminal renovation public-private partnership, Great Hall Partners has released documents showing that it would have cost more than $1 billion to complete the project, up from the original budget of $650 million, Colorado Politics reported, and that delays would push project completion to February 2024.
Great Hall would have required a change order of $288 million, and, when taking the project contingency into account, the total cost would have been approximately $1 billion. The contractor's estimate was less, however, than an earlier projection of $311 million of additional costs.
In a statement on its website, Great Hall said it is "disappointed" that it could not reach a resolution with airport officials to the "serious issues" presented by the weak concrete and "more than 20 large in scale, badly timed and unnecessary change directives" issued by the airport.
Amid rising costs and delays, Denver International Airport officials have terminated the airport's $1.8 billion public-private partnership (P3) contract with Great Hall Partners, the consortium performing a renovation of the facility's Jeppesen Terminal, The Denver Post reported. The construction portion of the contract is $650 million, but the total payout for Great Hall would have been almost $2 billion when factoring in a 34-year concession management agreement.
DIA must pay Ferrovial-led Great Hall at least $200 million to reimburse the group for the financing it provided at the start of the project, but the total termination fee will be negotiated between the two. DIA now will begin the search for another contractor to take over the project's reins when Great Hall begins stopping work in November.
In a press conference Tuesday, DIA chief Kim Day told reporters that delays past the original completion date of 2021 are a given that the airport has to go through another procurement process, but that it hopes to stay close to the original budget using a $120 million contingency fund. Day did concede, however, that the project scope might change in order to meet those budgetary goals.
"Clearly we're disappointed," Day said. "This is not the outcome that we anticipated."
The termination of Great Hall was for convenience rather than for cause, which will likely allow the airport to avoid legal battles around the firing. Most construction contracts have a convenience clause, which means that the recipient of the contract can be fired for any reason. Many general contractors and owners try to work things out before the situation escalates to that point because stopping a project and finding another contractor can be costly and time-consuming.
In a statement to CBS4, Great Hall said it was committed to a smooth transition off of the project but denied any allegations by the airport that the group is to blame for excessive change orders.
One of the major issues has been around the quality of the terminal's existing concrete. After testing the concrete, Great Hall found areas of weak compressive strength. The airport hired an independent consultant to evaluate the concrete, and while there were relatively weaker areas, an inspection revealed no safety issues.
The consultant did, however, recommend additional testing around the airport property to check for alkali-silica reaction (ASR), which causes concrete to swell, crack and weaken. Traces of ASR were found in the terminal.
The Denver Post Denver airport fires Great Hall construction partners
CBS4 Denver DIA Great Hall Project Should Resume In Early 2020
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Club: Norwich City FC
Period: 1930's
Grimsby Town FC
Melchester Rovers
At the very heart of COPA from our earliest days is the renown Classic line which now comprises more than 250 retro football shirts, jackets and tracksuit trousers, all of which can be worn for active sports or casual use - on and off the pitch.
Our collection is inspired by our deep love and respect for the history of the game and is our special tribute to memorable club teams, national teams and players to have graced the game over the past century - from AS Roma to Dukla Prague, from Cuba to Australia and from FC Barcelona to Rapid Wien; each and every one of our products represents a little piece of footballing history and has a fascinating story behind it.
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Caño Island Scuba Diving Tour
Costa Rica Dive and Surf’s Caño Island Scuba Diving Tour is your ticket to spectacular dive sites widely praised as some of the best scuba diving in the world, not just the best Costa Rica scuba diving. The Caño Island Biological Reserve is a veritable wonderland of marine life, replete with vibrant coral and stunning aquatic creatures.
Caño Island Scuba Diving Tour Information:
Tour meets at 7 am at our Uvita dive shop and returns between 3:00-4:00 pm
Includes national park fees, equipment, dive or snorkel guide, lunch and a great time.
Minimum 4 people required per tour, but can be mixed Divers and Snorkelers
Please contact us if your group is smaller than 4 people, as we may be able to combine you with another group
Price per person is $175 for Caño Island Scuba Diving and $130 for Caño Island Snorkeling
DISTANCE FROM SHORE 53 km; Average 80 minutes from the coast
VISIBILITY From 20 to 60 feet
MAX DEPTH From 30 to 100 feet
TEMPERATURE From 70ºF to 86ºF
CURRENTS Presence of moderate currents and small waves. Strong currents and surge possible at Bajo del Diablo.
BOTTOM TYPE Rock formations and sand bottoms.
COMMON SPECIES White tip reef sharks, jacks, Southern sting rays, snappers, puffer fishes, angel fish, butterfly fish, moray eels, octopuses, sea turtles, lobsters
Just 32 miles offshore of Dominical Beach and positioned squarely within a massive current of the Pacific Ocean, Isla del Caño draws a diverse population of migratory creatures, such as whales and turtles, to its adjacent environs as well as hosting over 70 indigenous species within its borders. The colorful and majestic living-reef system surrounding the island is replete with marine organisms, including multiple types of Shellfish, Sponges, Mollusks, Arthropods, Fish, Marine Reptiles and Sea Mammals. Common, Bottlenose and Spotted Dolphins are regularly seen, as well as White Tip and Reef Sharks. Eagle Rays, Giant Manta Rays and Moray Eels are also regular sights on many of our dives. If you’re really lucky you might see a Whale Shark or a Humpback Whale. These animals —while rare—have been spotted during some of our Caño Island Scuba Diving Tours during whale-watching season.
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The island was founded in 1978 as part of the Costa Rican National Park System. “La Reserva Biológica Isla del Caño”, protects 800 acres of land on the island itself. It also protects over 14,000 surrounding marine acres. The Caño Island Biological Reserve was one of the very first reserves created for the enormous Costa Rican National Parks. These Parks protect a stunning 25 percent of all the land in Costa Rica. Also protect 10 vast stretches of the adjacent Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
Caño Island is often referred to as “Mini Cocos Island” due to similarities in their ecosystems, unspoiled state of preservation, well-deserved reputation for water visibility and the diversity of its underwater fauna. There are strict government policies on the number of daily visitors to the island as well as the number of boats which are allowed to anchor with scuba divers and snorkelers. making reservations as far in advance as possible is strongly recommended.
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Leaving bright and early, much of the trip will be spent in transit in full view of the majestic panorama of the Costa Ballena. This is a unique area of Costa Rica where Pacific Ocean waves lap against the shores of the coastal mountain range. Various sea creatures such as dolphins and whales are regularly seen along the way.
Once we arrive at the island, two dives will be performed at different locations. Locations are chosen depending on conditions at the island and the guidance of our knowledgeable Captain and Divemaster.
The quantity and sheer diversity of the Costa Rica Marine Life you will encounter on an Isla del Caño Scuba Diving Tour is so truly astounding. You might want to reserve your spot right then for the next day’s tour! We always operate with small groups, keeping your Caño Island Scuba Tour friendly, intimate and safe. If you’re looking for the best Costa Rica scuba diving available, Isla del Caño is where you will find it!
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MimbleWimble: Silly Sounding Tech Could Seriously Reform Bitcoin
Apr 30, 2017 at 12:25 UTC Updated May 1, 2017 at 13:03 UTC
Catheryne Nicholson
Catheryne Nicholson is the CEO and founder of BlockCypher, a blockchain web services startup.
In this opinion piece, Nicholson speaks out about the dysfunctional state of bitcoin’s community and why she believes new tech called MimbleWimble could help save it.
The state of bitcoin today is highly discouraging. Watching grown men hurl insults at each other on Reddit and Twitter is just sad.
When I became involved in 2013, bitcoin’s potential seemed endless. It was heralded as a possible solution for micropayments, remittances, microfinance, parking meters, email spam and so on. Many women, myself included, believed in bitcoin as a means to address world problems of poverty by providing access to capital for the remaining three-quarters of the world.
As time passed, I became discouraged that many needed use cases did not come to fruition. Startups attempting to build companies with those business models have died. Anything involving small payments in bitcoin has been mostly eliminated due to high fees.
The most popular use case is as a store of value. It’s not to say that isn’t useful: in the growing number of countries with devaluating currencies, bitcoin is an attractive alternative. Bitcoin has had an indelible impact as a groundbreaking technology. But it’s disheartening that it has stalled in doing more.
There are fundamental issues that will likely never be solved, as evidenced by the two-year debate on how to scale bitcoin. The community is more divisive than ever. I can’t help but think part of the reason it’s so dysfunctional is because it’s devoid of women.
Women (or any rational person) do not want to participate in this dystopian community: it’s juvenile and filled with vitriol. Bitcoin desperately needs a Patronus Charm, “a pure, protective magical concentration of happiness and hope.” [1]
My disappointment in bitcoin caused me to look at the blossoming landscape of alternate blockchains: eg litecoin, zcash, monero, ethereum and dash have all grown in market size and popularity.
It’s clear that more alternative coins (altcoins) will develop innovative solutions and come to market. This is why MimbleWimble caught my interest.
As a brief background, the original MimbleWimble white paper was placed by someone called Tom Elvis Jedusor (Voldemort’s French name in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter book series) on a bitcoin research channel in July 2016.
Tom’s white paper “Mimblewimble” (a tongue-tying curse used in “The Deathly Hallows”) was a blockchain proposal that could theoretically increase privacy, scalability and fungibility. It remained theoretical until recently.
At the end of 2016, someone named Ignotus Peverell (the original owner of the invisibility cloak, if you know your Harry Potter characters) started a Github project called Grin, and began turning the MimbleWimble paper into something real.
Andrew Poelstra, a mathematician at Blockstream, presented on this work in January 2017 at Stanford University’s Blockchain Protocol Analysis and Security Engineering 2017 conference. More recently, Ignotus posted a technical introduction to MimbleWimble and Grin.
It took me a while to wrap my head around MimbleWimble. The more I internalized it, the more hopeful I became that something more magical than bitcoin could appear. I will attempt to explain MimbleWimble and why what it proposes – privacy, freedom of choice, equal access, fungibility, and sustainable growth over time – are so important.
Privacy matters, a lot. One of the most important rights we have is the right to privacy. It’s our right to “keep a domain around us, which includes all those things that are part of us, such as our body, home, property, thoughts, feelings, secrets and identity.” [2]
I consider privacy extremely important.
It’s very apparent how valuable it is when you lose it or when someone violates it. In my 20s, I was stalked. A person whom I had met in passing on a military base waited for me after work and surreptitiously followed me home.
He did this for several weeks – all unbeknownst to me – until one day he knocked on my door and told me he had been following me and professed his undying love. I immediately slammed the door and called the local and military police. I lived alone in the woods and was so freaked out that I moved.
Only someone who has been stalked can understand how frightening this experience was. To this day, it affects many of my behaviors to guard my privacy.
Physical trespass of privacy is often preceded by online privacy violations. Recent events, such as Congress granting ISPs (internet service providers) the right to sell your personal information – browsing habits, app usage history, purchasing habits, location data – are very concerning.
As Luke Mulks from Brave elegantly wrote, “[Y]our digital data trail is the evidence of your human presence online. Your data is valuable, private, and most important, it’s yours.”
If we cannot rely on our legislature to protect our constitutional rights (can we rely on them for anything anymore?), technology needs to intercede to make it harder for greedy capitalists to put your privacy up for sale.
Privacy extends to what to share publicly about what we buy or whom we donate to. These transactions should not be open for all to see.
Women, especially those trying to escape repressive social or economic conditions, have a dire need to stay anonymous. That’s a fundamental flaw in bitcoin: every transaction and address balance is available for the world to watch and track.
There are some things you can do to hide your transaction, such as tumbling, but you need to go out of your way to use them and they are breakable. Privacy oriented cryptocurrencies like monero and zcash improve privacy significantly.
In monero, the transaction is not natively private, but relies on ring signatures to mask exchanges. Zcash leverages a technology called zk-snarks to build private transactions, which is a huge improvement.
However, it still requires a lot of extra resources to build a confidential transaction, so most users still issue their transactions “in the clear” (clear vs shielded counts).
The big change
MimbleWimble is natively private.
There are no ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs on top of a transparent bitcoin-like transaction. In a MimbleWimble transaction, all values are fully obscured. There are no reusable or identifiable addresses. Every transaction looks the same to an outside party.
The two properties verified in a MimbleWimble transaction are:
No new money is created
The parties sending money must prove ownership of their keys.
To verify no new money has been created, you must demonstrate that the sum of outputs minus the inputs equals zero. To verify key ownership, the transacting parties must legitimately prove their public and private keys exist to authorize the transaction.
MimbleWimble uses a blinding element to obscure all values – transaction amounts and keys – while holding true basic mathematical facts. The blinding element relies on multiplying and adding secret factors to obscure real values.
For example, let’s say I have a transaction with these amounts:
(1) 17 + 12 = 29
The balanced equation shows no new money was created, complying with property 1) above. The equation remains true if I apply a secret blinding number (eg 11) to all terms.
(2) 17*11 + 12*11 = 29*11
Without knowing my secret number 11, you would have a hard time guessing what the original transaction values are in this equation.
(3) 187 + 132 = 319
In equation (3), I’ve managed to keep both the values and blinding number private while still allowing others to verify I have not created new money in my transaction.
Still don’t think this is a big deal? MimbleWimble offers other extensive benefits that indicate it could form the foundation of the kind of network bitcoin was meant to be.
By obscuring all values, MimbleWimble provides full privacy and gives you the choice of what to reveal. It’s similar to donor levels in various non-profits. You’ll see the range a donation was made for, but you don’t necessarily know the exact donation.
Both the donor and the non-profit know exactly how much was donated, but no one else needs to know.
This “right to privacy gives us the ability to choose which parts in this domain can be accessed by others, and to control the extent, manner and timing of the use of those parts we choose to disclose.” [2]
Another aspect of bitcoin that disturbs me greatly is there is little opportunity left for an average person to participate in securing the network. The requirement of a highly specialized and expensive chip for bitcoin mining – the ASIC – has almost eliminated anyone from becoming a bitcoin miner, whose primary responsibility is validating transactions and placing them into blocks.
The mining community is now heavily centralized and this has greatly contributed to bitcoin’s woes.
The ability to grow over time while still providing equal opportunity to participate are key tenets of Ignotus’ Grin implementation of MimbleWimble. Grin is designed to be ASIC resistant, so that anyone who wants to try mining can buy a widely available GPU chip at a local Best Buys or online for a reasonable price.
Making MimbleWimble ASIC resistant democratizes access. I’ve even toyed with the idea of building a GPU miner with my kids to see what it can do.
Ability to grow over time
Another way to safeguard equal access over time is to ensure the blockchain network doesn’t get dragged to a standstill when transaction volume increases.
This is the core issue in the bitcoin block-size debate: there are more transactions than can fit into a 1Mb block. As long as there’s a restrictive size limit, there will be a capacity issue. A dirty little secret is that to get around scalability issues, almost all payment processors and exchanges do off-chain transactions. Which begs the question: why bother using a cryptocurrency with blockchain?
Increasing usage will increase transaction volume. So how do you ensure that a block size can continue to accommodate volume increases? By streamlining each block.
The principle is similar to simplifying equations. If there are terms that are identical on both sides of an equation, you can cut them:
(8) 2+y = x+2
(9) 7+3+5+4+2+y = x+7+3+5+4+2
Both equations (8) and (9) simplify to:
(10) y = x
MimbleWimble maintains that if an output spends an input, you no longer have to keep them because they cancel each other out. This greatly cuts down the amount of data you have to store and process.
The only data that nodes keep is unspent outputs and block headers. Instead of thinking of blockchain capacity in terms of number of transactions, MimbleWimble is designed to grow with the number of users. The streamlined blocks make growth sustainable over time as the transaction data set does not continue to get bigger.
This increases privacy since transaction data gets removed and it also enables fungibility.
Fungibility
Fungibility is the ability for equal units to be interchangeable.
Let’s say I give you a dollar – either as a coin or a paper note. The Federal Reserve prints the paper dollar and the US Mint produces the coin dollar, but both are equal. Neither is lesser or greater than the other and you can chose to use a dollar coin or bill interchangeably.
This is a key characteristic of currency: equal units must be interchangeable, or fungible. The US dollar is fungible. Bitcoin is not.
The bitcoin blockchain keeps every single input and output forever and so each coin carries a legacy. It’s similar to equation (9) above.
Another dirty little secret is that when picking which transactions to process – in addition to the fee – payment processors, miners, and exchanges will look at the inputs (ie 7+3+5+4+2) to assess the quality of the transaction. The consequence is one bitcoin is not fungible with another.
The most valued bitcoins are called ‘coinbase transactions’, which are the ones created when a block is found. They are newly minted and ‘clean’ and some parties pay a premium to buy them. A hierarchy in coin quality develops. The consequence is, if you receive bitcoins that have inputs that are tainted (eg they have been used in a dark market), spending them may become increasingly difficult.
In MimbleWimble, because the (7+3+5+4+2) inputs and outputs are all discarded when spent, each coin is exactly equal to the other. In other words, MimbleWimble coins are interchangeable and fungible.
I’m very hopeful seeing the accelerating pace of research and innovation in public blockchains.
If privacy and scalability are solved, MimbleWimble could be the Patronus Charm for bitcoin, perhaps as a complementary sidechain. Imagine what a universal fungible digital coin could enable with access for everyone.
One hesitation I have, however, is that many people developing it have taken on Harry Potter-themed pseudonyms. It’s understandable given the personal attacks rampant in the community, but it does conjure a mystical aura. I’m glad Andrew Poelstra, a highly qualified real figure, is actively involved with MimbleWimble.
I hope I can add my voice to the mix, also as a real person. I realize that by not using a pseudonym, I’m opening myself to the troll armies. I’ve attempted to explain why MimbleWimble is interesting to me.
I hope it intrigues enough people and inspires both men AND women to engage early; it would be great if this community doesn’t wind up as a testosterone-filled boys club.
Apparently, Merope Riddle (Lord Voldemort’s mother) is already very involved in MimbleWimble’s development. I believe it’s worth learning, participating in its genesis, and helping to develop a healthy community around it.
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Large study looks at risk factors for bone problems in HIV
Multiple studies have found that HIV-positive people are at increased risk for developing osteopenia and osteoporosis (thinner-than-normal bones) and, in rare cases, osteonecrosis (the degeneration and death of bones, particularly joints). These complications increase the risk for fractures.
Researchers with a large database called EuroSIDA reviewed the health-related data that they had accumulated since 2004. They focused on 11,820 HIV-positive participants who had been monitored for an average of seven years. When it came to fractures and osteonecrosis, the following had occurred:
416 people developed 619 new fractures
73 people developed 89 new instances of osteonecrosis
Common locations of fractures were as follows:
An immunological link
In general, the risk of a fracture was greatest among participants with a CD4+ count of 200 cells/mm3 or less. Fracture risk was much lower among people with a CD4+ count between 501 and 750 cells/mm3 and lowest among people whose CD4+ count was greater than 750 cells/mm3.
There was no similar trend between CD4+ cell counts and the risk of osteonecrosis.
Risk factors for fractures
Among the 619 new fractures, the risk factors that researchers uncovered were as follows:
less-than-ideal body weight
injecting street drugs
hepatitis C virus co-infection
prior diagnosis of osteonecrosis and fractures
recent (in the past 12 months) diagnosis of cancer unrelated to AIDS
recent (in the past 12 months) diagnosis of cardiovascular disease
People who entered the EuroSIDA study with relatively high CD4+ cell counts and people of colour had a significantly reduced risk for developing osteoporosis-related fractures.
Risk factors for osteonecrosis
Among the 89 new instances of osteonecrosis, some of the risk factors that researchers found were as follows:
prior diagnosis of osteonecrosis
prior fractures
prior AIDS
prior AIDS-related cancer
As with the previous analysis of fractures, the EuroSIDA researchers found that people of colour had a reduced risk for osteonecrosis.
The possible role of tenofovir
The current and widely used formulation of tenofovir (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, TDF) which is in Truvada and several other medicines has been associated with an increased risk for bone problems.
A new formulation of tenofovir called TAF (tenofovir alafenamide) is gradually being introduced in high-income countries. It appears to be safer for bones (and kidneys).
In the EuroSIDA study, if participants used tenofovir, it would have been the older formulation.
Overall, researchers found that people who had been exposed to tenofovir had an increased risk for bone fractures. This risk was elevated in the first year of use. If people continued to use the drug, the risk of developing a fracture remained elevated but stable; that is, it did not significantly increase further.
There are many factors that reduce the density of bone (and/or increase the risk for bone-related problems), such as the following:
excessive intake of alcohol
use of corticosteroids
These factors were not analysed in the present study, perhaps because researchers did not have sufficient information on them.
EuroSIDA is an observational study and so it cannot prove a link between “cause and effect.” That is, the study cannot prove that what it identified as a risk factor did indeed cause the problems it was assessing. However, other studies have found broadly similar findings to the EuroSIDA study and so the results from this study are likely correct.
The researchers presented their findings at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. They barely had 10 minutes to do so (this time limit is often standard at most high-level international scientific conferences) and did not explain the context of some of their findings. For instance, the link between osteonecrosis and the diagnosis of a life-threatening infection or cancer that is the hallmark of AIDS may have arisen because patients with these conditions sometimes experience intense inflammatory reactions that require potent doses of anti-inflammatory drugs, such as corticosteroids. These drugs have been previously linked to the development of thinning bones. It is also possible that if patients were sufficiently ill to develop AIDS, they may have had untreated HIV infection for a long time. During that time they could have had malabsorption, been underweight and experienced excessive activation and inflammation of their immune system. In theory, all of these factors could have affected their bone density over time.
The link between fractures and a recent diagnosis of cardiovascular disease is interesting and should be further explored in other analyses.
—Sean R. Hosein
Borges AH, Hoy J, Florence E, et al. Antiretrovirals, fractures, and osteonecrosis in a large European HIV cohort. Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, 22-25 February 2016, Boston, MA. Abstract 46.
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NWAC president looking into 'distressing' allegations of toxic workplace
Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) President Francyne Joe said Tuesday that the organization's board would soon discuss allegations from employees who said management was doing little to deal with a toxic work environment that was affecting the mental health of staff.
Open letter called allegations from employees 'offensive' and 'unfounded'
Jorge Barrera · CBC News · Posted: Apr 09, 2019 5:33 PM ET | Last Updated: April 9, 2019
Francyne Joe, president of the Native Women's Association of Canada, says the board will be discussing allegations from employees about workplace stress. (CBC News)
"It's distressing," said Joe. "I am looking further into questions raised ... the board will be discussing this."
An open letter tweeted by NWAC Monday in response to a CBC News story based on interviews with five employees who said the organization's workplace was in a state of crisis called the allegations "unfounded, offensive and defamatory."
The five employees, whom CBC News is not identifying due to their concerns that they faced possible termination if their identities were publicized, said the environment inside the organization was so tense that some staff were crying at their desks and in the bathroom.
The open letter from NWAC said "the nature of our work exposes staff to content which can be emotionally tolling, cause stress, or trigger personal ties or lived experiences" and that NWAC takes a "culturally appropriate and trauma informed approach" to all its work and human resources operations.
The letter said that NWAC also has an Elder on hand to offer counselling and advice.
Allegations of a toxic work environment inside NWAC first surfaced publicly in early 2018 when it emerged that the organization's board had received at least five letters since January 2017 raising concerns about the internal dynamics faced by staff.
'Toxic' work culture at Indigenous women's organization affecting staff mental health, say employees
Native Women's Association of Canada facing internal turmoil
On Feb. 25, about 25 staff members, nearly half of the 60 employees at NWAC, endorsed an unsigned letter to Joe and John Lymer, the human resources manager, raising concerns the workplace environment was having negative mental health impacts on staff.
"Staff continue to experience toxicity, hostility, stress and stress-related illnesses from an unstable work environment and high turnover rate, and these concerns continue to be dismissed," said the letter.
"The levels of toxicity and fear in the organization are at an all-time high and we have written this letter as a call to the board of directors to intervene — staff are at a point of crisis."
Days earlier, on Feb. 20, Cathy Martin, a senior political advisor, sent her resignation letter to all staff at the organization.
"The experiences I have endured during the past six weeks have left me with disappointment and discontent," wrote Martin.
"Many of the experiences I have witnessed and endured at NWAC, in my opinion, are contradictory to my values."
Jorge Barrera
Jorge Barrera is a Caracas-born, award-winning journalist who has worked across the country and internationally. He works for CBC's Indigenous unit based out of Ottawa. Follow him on Twitter @JorgeBarrera or email him jorge.barrera@cbc.ca.
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Office rents rising nationwide - Tokyo vacancy rate falls below 5.0% for the first time since Q3 2009
CBRE today released today its Q2 2014 market report for office buildings in 13 cities across Japan.
Noteworthy Trends
Tokyo Grade A vacancy rate rises marginally but assumed achievable rent records 2.8% q-o-q increase
Osaka Grade A vacancy rate down 0.9 points q-o-q to below 10%
Nagoya all-grade vacancy rate drops to 7.0%, down 8.2 points from 2010 peak
Assumed achievable rent rises in nearly all regional cities
Tokyo 23 Wards
The Tokyo Grade A office vacancy rate stood at 4.8% in Q2 2014, a rise of 0.1 points q-o-q, the first such increase in three quarters. Grade A assumed achievable rent increased 2.8% q-o-q to ¥31,650 per tsubo, the largest rise since Q3 2007. Four new buildings were completed this quarter, of which two were fully let upon completion.
The rise in the vacancy rate this quarter was primarily due to two newly completed buildings coming to market not fully let. The landlords of these buildings deliberately opted not to fully pre-lease their property ahead of completion. Given that demand continues to strengthen, the landlords believe they can secure higher rents for the remaining space by leasing it out in forthcoming quarters. The fall in vacancies is providing additional momentum to the upturn in rents, which is likely to accelerate further.
The vacancy rate for Tokyo’s 23 wards for all-grade offices declined by 0.3 pts q-o-q to 4.8% this quarter. Large vacant spaces are being filled by demand for office consolidation and/or group restructuring by companies taking advantage of stronger corporate earnings. Smaller tenants also continue to relocate in order to improve the location and standard of their office. Overall corporate office demand is robust.
"Tenants have already been secured for an average of around 80% of the space in the buildings which came online this year. This demonstrates the current strength of office demand for Grade A buildings”, said Hiroshi Koizumi, executive director of CBRE's Office Service team. “With fewer available spaces in newly constructed buildings, companies looking to relocate to larger premises in tandem with business expansion are increasingly looking to properties planned for future construction. Spaces that will become available following tenant relocations to these planned new buildings are likely to become a good option for relocation."
Grade A vacancies in Osaka fell 0.9 pts q-o-q to 9.4% in Q2 2014. After peaking at 18.2% in Q1 2013 following the completion of a large volume of new supply, the vacancy rate has progressively fallen. However, the average assumed achievable rent for Grade A buildings was flat q-o-q at ¥19,000 per tsubo. Although options open to tenants are narrowing as the available space reduces on the back of buoyant demand, companies continue to adopt a cautious approach to costs. Therefore, it may take a little longer for rents to rebound. The Osaka all-grade vacancy rate fell 0.4 pts q-o-q to 7.5% this quarter. Business expansion, underpinned by the economic recovery, is now clearly being reflected in the office market. Activity can be seen from companies across various sectors. Leasing transactions include relocation for location/facility upgrades, floor space expansions, new office openings and expansion within existing premises.
"This quarter saw large-scale relocations for location upgrades as well as a succession of tenants relocating to increase their floor space or taking up more space within their existing premises for business expansion,” said Takashi Katono, head of CBRE’s Kansai Office. “Available space is steadily being taken up and companies who wish to increase floor space or relocate are advised to speed up their decision making processes."
Grade A vacancies in Nagoya fell 0.1 pts q-o-q to 3.3% in Q2 2014. This was partly due to a relocation by a major housing company for office consolidation and an expansion within an existing premises by a major telecommunications firm. Assumed achievable rent fell by 0.7% pts q-o-q to ¥21,300 per tsubo. This was due to declining rents at some buildings where available space has been vacant for an extended period, which pushed down the overall average. The all-grade vacancy rate in Nagoya fell 1.1 pts q-o-q to 7.0%, marking an 8.2% point drop from the peak recorded in 2010. The fall in vacancies is being led by demand for office expansion on the back of the recovery in corporate earnings as well as relocations for office upgrades (location and/or facilities).
"We are seeing an increase in the volume of requirements for corporate relocation in Nagoya,” said Takahiro Fujimoto, head of CBRE's Nagoya branch. “At the same time, as space in existing buildings is limited, companies considering relocation are also thinking of moving into buildings which are currently under construction."
During Q2 2014, vacancy rates fell q-o-q in nine out of the 13 surveyed cities nationwide. While a couple of cities including Yokohama saw vacancy rates rise due to new supply, companies continue to seek out office space across the board. Activity was seen across a wide range of sectors including manufacturing and telecoms and services. Leasing deals involved new office openings, expansion within existing premises and relocation to larger spaces. In some cities, the supply of large-scale floor plates is shrinking and hopes are being pinned on new supply stimulating relocation demand. Assumed achievable rents rose q-o-q in almost all regional cities. Led by the fall in vacancy rates, rents now appear to have bottomed out and are moving upward.
Note: Previously, CBRE compiled rents for Grade A offices in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka based on the assumed achievable rent (inclusive of service charges). From this quarter, CBRE has listed assumed achievable rents for Grade B offices (Grade A– in Tokyo only). Please refer to the survey outline attached for details of the applicable buildings and complilation method.
For further details of the market data in each city and an overview of market conditions please refer to the Q2 2014 Japan Office MarketView released on August 4th.
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Michael Brown's stepfather investigated for comments after grand jury
December 2, 2014 / 10:55 PM / CBS/AP
ST. LOUIS -- Police are investigating Michael Brown's stepfather for angry comments on the streets of Ferguson after a grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who fatally shot his stepson, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Officials are looking into Louis Head's comments as part of a broader investigation into the arson, vandalism and looting that followed the Nov. 24 grand jury announcement, St. Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman said. Twelve commercial buildings were destroyed by fire.
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Brown, 18, who was black and unarmed, was killed Aug. 9 by Darren Wilson, who is white. Wilson, who resigned from the Ferguson department last weekend, had told the grand jury his life was being threatened, but some witnesses said Brown was trying to surrender.
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Video widely circulated after last week's grand jury announcement shows Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, on top of a car and breaking down as the decision blares over a stereo. Head, her husband, comforts her then yells angry comments, including "Burn this bitch down!"
Family attorney Benjamin Crump has called the reaction "raw emotion," but "completely inappropriate." He did not immediately return messages seeking comment Tuesday.
Head has not yet been interviewed by police, and there is no timetable for when the investigation will be complete, Schellman said. He declined to discuss what specific charges Head could face. A message left with a spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch was not immediately returned.
Ferguson Mayor James Knowles told CBS affiliate KMOV the police department is speaking with people who witnessed Head make his remarks, adding that police hope to speak with Head soon about his intent. However, Ferguson police spokesman Jeff Small told the Associated Press that department is not conducting a separate investigation of Head.
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Most of the violence occurred in the first two days after the announcement. Peaceful protests have continued, including one Tuesday involving students who walked out of classes from three Ferguson-area high schools.
The Ferguson-Florissant School District said in a letter to students and parents teachers accompanied the students to ensure their safety but that the protests were student-led. The letter also said the district dispatched transportation to pick up students and return them to classes, though some chose to walk back.
It was their first day back in class after Thanksgiving break was extended a day due to bad weather Monday, when similar walkouts were staged across the country.
While daytime protests continue, nighttime demonstrations have waned. There were 124 arrests in Ferguson in the five days following the grand jury announcement, but none since Friday.
As a result, police and the National Guard are scaling back. Schellman said county officers are no longer working 12-hour shifts, though a small contingent will remain posted at night outside Ferguson police headquarters, which has been a focal point for protest gatherings.
Gov. Jay Nixon also announced Tuesday that the National Guard has completed duties in the city of St. Louis and is reducing its presence -- which peaked at about 2,200 guard members -- in Ferguson and elsewhere in St. Louis County. Still, nearly 1,300 remain in the region. Nixon also said the Missouri State Highway Patrol will continue to work with local police.
First published on December 2, 2014 / 10:55 PM
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https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Second-UConn-football-stabbing-victim-identified-181876.php
Second UConn football stabbing victim identified
By Neill Ostrout, Staff Writer
Published 4:20 pm EDT, Monday, October 19, 2009
Latest from Neill Ostrout's UConn sports blog following Monday's Big East teleconference. Read more breaking news and reaction on his blog at http://blog.ctnews.com/ostrout
2ND STABBING VICTIM IDENTIFIED -- Bryan Parker, a wide receiver on the UConn football team, was the second person stabbed early Sunday morning. Teammate Jasper Howard was killed in the fight outside the Student Union but Parker was treated and released from Windham Hospital.
The medical examiner in Farmington reports today that Jasper Howard died from a single stab wound to the abdomen Sunday morning. Their office is officially ruling Howard's death a homicide.
Additionally, UConn football coach Randy Edsall said two of his players were with Jasper Howard when he died.
"At least two of our guys when this took place, one had Jasper in his arms and the other was pressuring where the wound went in and had blood on his hands," Edsall said. "Those two young men I know are deeply affected right now."
Edsall didn't name the players but said one or both might not play against West Virginia.
Arrests made in UConn murder
"I will tell them if they don't feel like mentally they are ready to play, then that's their decision," Edsall said. "And I'll honor whatever decision they want to make. I know that would be respected by each and every guy on our team."
HOWARD FAMILY TRAVELS TO CONNECTICUT -- Edsall is headed to Bradley Airport this afternoon to pick up Jasper's parents up as they fly up from Miami.
The coach and Howard's family will head to St. Francis Hospital in Hartford to speak with the attending physician in the operating room who worked on Howard. They will then go to the UConn Health Center in Farmington, where Howard's body is now.
CAPTAINS SELECT TRIBUTE -- The Huskies will wear a "JH" sticker on the back of their helmets Saturday and as they go forward. The team's captains selected that option after Edsall gave them a few choices of ways to honor Howard.
"We'll be taking either Jasper's jersey or helmet with us to all the games we'll be playing for the rest of the year," Edsall said.
NO POSTPONING WVU GAME -- There was never any thought on UConn's part of postponing or canceling the West Virginia game.
"There wasn't. We really didn't give it much thought," Edsall said. "I know Jasper wouldn't want us to do that. That's the real reason. Jasper was a competitor. He loved the game, loved the spirit and the competition of the game."
WVU REACTION -- West Virginia coach Bill Stewart, who was emotional and eloquent when speaking of Howard both Sunday and Monday, said he's traded voice mails with Edsall but hasn't spoken to the coach yet. Stewart said he did talk to UConn AD Jeff Hathaway and to UConn tight ends coach Dave McMichael, a former West Virginia assistant.
There will be some kind of tribute to Howard prior to the UConn-West Virginia game on Saturday but those details are still being worked on.
"We're still talking with the administration, both there and here. There will be something worked out," Stewart said.
A number of the Mountaineers knew Howard.
"The youngsters of ours from the Miami area who knew him took it very, very hard," Stewart said. "Our guys were quite shaken, as they should be. They really liked that young man immensely."
On the field Stewart remembered Howard being a dangerous punt returner.
"Every time we punted the ball I had my fingers crossed," Stewart said. "He led the Big East because he was good, not because he was lucky."
BIG EAST REACTION -- A number of the league's head coaches offered kind words to UConn and the Howard family Monday.
"On behalf of Rutgers football and Rutgers University I'd like to express our deepest sympathy to the Howard family and to the University of Connecticut family," Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said. "In times like these a close conference like the Big East needs to come together."
Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe watched Howard's final game up close.
"Our condolences and sympathies go out to Jasper Howard and his family," Kragthorpe said. "He played a great football game againt us. I had a lot of respect for him going into the game and even more coming out of the game."
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Live Bait Theatre bringing Esther Cox back to Amherst
Darrell Cole (darrell.cole@amherstnews.ca)
Published: Jul 16, 2019 at 11:28 p.m.
Possessed by Esther Cox is being presented by Live Bait Theatre in Amherst and Sackville, N.B. through Aug. 10. Heather MacIntyre as Grandma is shown getting haunted by an Esther Cox doll. - Contributed
Show features a host of wacky characters and classic hits
AMHERST, N.S. —
Amherst’s most famous ghost girl, Esther Cox, is returning to Amherst this summer.
Live Bait Theatre is presenting Possessed by Esther Cox, a musical dinner theatre which offers a comedic take on The Great Amherst Mystery, from July 22 to Aug. 10. The show features a host of wacky characters and classic hits from the 50s to today.
In the fall of 1878 18-year-old, Amherst native, Esther Cox, was at the centre of a series of bizarre events which would become known as The Great Amherst Mystery; a tale that MacLean’s magazine called, “Canada’s most famous ghost story and a classic Poltergeist case.” Esther was supposedly haunted by a number of ghosts and poltergeist activity was witnessed by dozens of Amherst residents.
Charlie Rhindress wrote Guilty! The Story of the Great Amherst Mystery, a play based on Esther’s story for Live Bait in 1991. The production sold out its entire run, but also brought a series of unfortunate events to the cast and crew, including broken bones, car accidents, illnesses, and power outages. Esther claimed that most of her hauntings were caused by a ghost named Bob and during the play’s run the region was even hit by Hurricane Bob!
“Quite often when people work on projects about the paranormal they seem to attract dark energy and bad luck,’ Rhindress said. “If you look at movies like The Exorcist and Poltergeist, it’s almost like their productions were cursed,” he added. “We experienced the same thing when we worked on the play. After a while whenever something weird would happen, we’d just say, ‘Oh, that’s Esther again.’”
Rhindress and Karen Valanne later wrote Possessed by Esther Cox, a comedic dinner theatre inspired by the story. It premiered at Live Bait in 1996 and did not seem to bring bad luck with it. Rhindress has updated the script and changed some of the songs for this latest production.
In the dinner theatre, Grandma passes out drunk in the parking lot of the Amherst police station, near the spot where Esther Cox's home once stood, and wakes up to find herself possessed by the haunted girl. Heather MacIntyre is back as the ever popular Grandma.
Also returning for this show are the very talented Morgan Grant, James Hand and Carley Varner. Two hilarious young actors, Paul Brisk and Hannah Tuck, are making their Live Bait debuts with this production. Live Bait veteran, Jennie Del Motte will once again musically direct
The show opens on July 22 in Springhill as part of Old Home Week and the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Anne Murray Centre. With support from the Town of Amherst, the show will play at the Community Credit Union Business Innovation Centre in Amherst from July 24-27 as part of the Amherst Performing Arts Series. The show ends its run at the Sackville Legion, Aug. 7-10.
The meal includes a main course (meatballs, salads, etc), dessert and tea or coffee. Tickets are $40 each (taxes included) or $37.50 for eight or more (tickets must be purchased together). Information and tickets are available at www.livebaittheatre.com or by calling (506) 536-2248. Tickets can also be bought at Robert Lyon Graphics in Sackville or Bargain Bennies in Amherst.
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Before using the packets below, "paternity," which means who the father of the child is ("fatherhood"), must be established. Paternity ("fatherhood") may be established if the father signs and files a "Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity" (a statement that says he is the father) with the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. Paternity ("fatherhood") may also be established through the Oregon Child Support Program or through the courts. You may request that the Oregon Child Support Program establish paternity by filling out an Application for Services (Form #CSF 03-0574) and the Affidavit in Support of Establishing Paternity (Form #CSF 11-0112), and sending these to the address stated on the form. You will be charged a $1 fee for this service.
After paternity ("fatherhood") has been legally established, an unmarried parent may use this packet to ask the court to establish custody, parenting time and child support. Either parent may initiate a case. Unmarried parents have the same rights and responsibilities regarding custody and support of their children that married or divorced parents have. This packet is not appropriate for use by anyone other than the parents of the children.
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IPL 2019: Match 33, Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Super Kings – Lesser Known Stats
Here are the lesser known stats recorded during a big defeat for the Chennai Super Kings.
by Sampath Sr. Statistician
Published - Apr 18, 2019 10:45 am | Updated - Apr 18, 2019 10:45 am
Jonny Bairstow. (Photo Source: Twitter)
With three defeats in three matches, the Sunrisers Hyderabad were in need of a win that too by a big margin having lost by 40 and 39-run margins. However, they were up against the Chennai Super Kings who defeated them on as many as four instances in the previous edition. The home team had a bit of breath with MS Dhoni being rested and it did feel as CSK failed to finish on high. They ended with 132/5 by scoring only 52 runs in the last ten and over 30 in the last 30 deliveries.
Here are the lesser known stats recorded during a big defeat for the Chennai Super Kings:
When Warner hits well, SRH does well:
The Sunrisers Hyderabad managed to win only three of their 11 matches in the IPL against the Chennai Super Kings. Interestingly, David Warner scored fifty in all those three matches and stood as the player of the game. Warner struck a 45-ball 90 during the 2014 game in Rajkot where his knock helped SRH to chase down 186. He top-scored with a quick-fire 61 off 28 balls during a 22-run win at home in the 2015 season against the Super Kings. Warner was the player of the match for his 25-ball 50 on Wednesday.
CSK falter at death:
The Chennai Super Kings aggregated only 30 runs in the last five overs; the 3rd fewest they scored between 16th and 20th overs while batting first in an IPL game. The top two worst finishes of CSK were recorded in the first three seasons itself. During the 2009 edition, they scored 20/3 in the last five overs from 96/6 against Kings XI Punjab.
However, their total of 116/9 turned out to be a match-winning for CSK as KXIP finished with only 92/8 in their 20 overs. Later, during the 2010 season, CSK were cruising at 110/4 against the Deccan Chargers. However, the last five overs aggregated 28/4 as CSK finished with 138/8. The DC team chased down the target in the final over losing three wickets.
Jadeja costs CSK with the bat:
One of the reasons why CSK ended up with a below par total was Ravindra Jadeja’s misfired effort with the bat in the death overs. Jadeja ended up with an unbeaten 20-ball 10 with a strike-rate of 50 which is the joint 9th lowest by any player in an IPL inning of 20+ balls. This is also the joint 2nd lowest S/R in an unbeaten IPL inning of 20+ balls.
MS Dhoni scored 8* off 22 balls at an S/R of 36.36 during the 2016 game against KKR. The RPS innings was reduced to 17.4 overs due to a rain interruption. Saurabh Tiwary also had 50 S/R during his 26-ball 13* against CSK during the 2011 season. Tiwary’s knock came in the last league game of RCB where they successfully chased down 129 with two overs to spare.
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I think it's great news that there will only be one night of debate. It'll be even better when the field gets down to 5-6 candidates that actually have a (somewhat) realistic chance of winning the nomination.
It's damn near impossible to have a quality debate on substantive issues when there's ten people sharing a stage. What I'm looking forward to is seeing how Biden will handle himself when he's forced to spend more time debating Warren, Sanders, and Harris head on.
Biden can play defense and wait out the clock when there's 9 other people on the stage trying desperately to get their 15 seconds of fame, but he's eventually going to have to take the left flank of the party head on and be able to withstand their attacks if he's going to stand any chance against Donald.
For now, I'm leaning towards supporting Biden in the primary because I think he's our best bet to win in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Honestly, we should just have a primary in those three states because they are the only ones that matter in 2020.
that guy in AZ
According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, Trump is trailing all 5 of the leading Democratic candidates (Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, and mayor Pete.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/quinnipiac-poll-shows-trump-trailing-top-democrats-in-2020-matchups/vi-AAGsxnm
More ominously (for Trump) is that even a recent FOX poll shows him trailing the Democrats:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/fox-news-poll-trump-trailing-democrats.html
Ft.myers, FL
We'll wait and see. I'll write book titled "How to get an "mental patient" removed from the White House" ( As well the Nazi Miller) My bet is; not with the sleepy Democrats! Including Biden. ( Unless they get an real backbone)
I am cautiously optimistic, but know that what happened in 2016 could happen again. The combination of factors that produced a "perfect storm" for Trump are still looming on the horizon. And note this: if Trump wins Dutch's state of Florida (likely now), then he only needs to win one of the rust belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to win a second term, assuming he holds all other states he won in 2016. Those other factors...a 3rd party candidate like Jill Stein, Russian bots spreading misinformation, and the Bernie die hard supporters learning to "hate" a Democratic establishment candidate so much during the campaign that they cannot vote for him/her or worse yet vote for Trump like they did in 2016. Oh and voter suppression.
That doesn't even get into election fraud...ancient voting machines that are easily hacked. "The Associated Press reports that the “vast majority” of the nation’s 10,000 election jurisdictions use Windows 7 or older operating systems to create ballots, program voting machines, tally votes, and report counts. Microsoft plans to stop supporting Windows 7 on Jan. 14, ten months before the 2020 election."
For some an 11 year old child could hack the machine and change results:
11-year-old shows it’s child’s play to mess with elections
"11-year-old Emmett Brewer is too young to vote, but it turned out that he’s not too young to learn how to change election results on a replica of Florida’s state website… in under 10 minutes, mind you, as the Voting Village announced on Friday."
Note my bolding of "Florida"...Dutch.
So as long as Moscow Mitch is blocking legislation and funds for enhanced voting security, we can expect really anomalous results in some districts, which may not be revealed or even challenged until too late. Trump will already be sworn in.
That's the nightmare scenario...I remain cautiously optimistic. A winner will emerge out of the Democratic debates, but the general election could produce defeat again unless Dems get their act together. Go Joe!
The reason that it is critical that the Democrats win in 2020 is that we need to wrest control away from the truly crazy people in this country. Their latest warning is that there will be bloodshed if Democrats win in 2020
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/8/1883821/-Fox-News-GOP-media-now-warn-of-bloodshed-if-Democrats-win-in-2020?detail=emaildkre
The "usual suspects" are leading the charge. Meghan McCain. Tucker Carlson. The Three Percenters. Glenn Beck. Fox's Todd Starnes . Fox News Pat Caddell. Townhall’s Kurt Schlichter.
And finally ..
Right-wing radio show host Erick Erickson warned that friends of his who keep AR-15's buried in the ground will likely resort to violence against the government.
Eric Boehlert's article in the Daily Kos is a good one. It defines exactly the fear mongering and threats that the gun cult is making if Democrats enact any kind of gun safety legislation. Add to that Michael Cohen's prediction during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee: "Indeed, given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power."
It could be a self fulfilling prophecy...keep saying it again and again, and then sit back and watch the inspired violence when Trump loses and claiming, "I told you so!"
Tom Steyer somehow managed to qualify for the 4th Democratic debate in October. I can't imagine that he will get far beyond that , but I'd like to hear his views - at least once.
Wisely, he would not focus on efforts to impeach President Donald Trump. His campaign is focusing on getting corporate money out of U.S. politics. He has worked for years on climate change and voter engagement and donated about $170 million since 2015 to his independent political action committees, Need to Impeach and NextGen America.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/steyer-democratic-debate/2019/09/08/id/931736/?ns_mail_uid=55284481-e237-4dcf-a870-3b9d22910c8d&ns_mail_job=DM19387_09082019&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010135ytx7c8
According to the latest Monmouth poll, Biden is now tied with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/us/politics/monmouth-democratic-polls-2020.html
The next debate is Thursday on ABC, broadcast from Houston. The October debate will be on the 15th and 16th in Ohio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_debates_and_forums
The person most capable of defeating Donald Trump is Donald Trump. If Democrats are smart, they will let him do the job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/opinion/trump-2020.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
The Trump reelection campaign has a message for the city hosting the third Democratic debate Thursday: “socialism will kill Houston’s economy.”
A campaign official told ABC News about the message against socialism, which will fly on a banner across the city from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.— the debate will begin one hour later.
The campaign will spend approximately $7,500 for the ad and its flight, reports ABC News.
Brad Parscale✔@parscale
Socialism SUCKS and @TeamTrump is flying high above the Dem debate in Houston to remind the circus in town that their policies will hurt Houston, Texas and America!
Text "USA" TO 88022https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-counter-dems-debate-flying-massive-banner/story?id=65548680 …
Since most intelligent people have concluded that the 2017 tax cut was a bust, and tariffs are REALLY BAD for our country, the only two things that the Trump campaign can talk about are (1) socialism sucks and (2) the economy is great. Since the economy really is NOT all that great for most people, that leaves "socialism" sucks. If they're smart, the Democrats need to remind Americans of the SEVENTY FIVE REASONS why socialism is a good thing. They also need to remind them that Joni Ernst wants to negotiate taking away their Social Security BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/3/29/1078852/-75-Ways-Socialism-Has-Improved-America
Central, FL
This is the first of the debates with me watching. I mostly saw highlights of the others. I am hopeful for bold exchanges with no personal attacks. I hope to end the weekend with my 2 favorites and a few who could be an excellent second in command.
Sorry, but a viewed a bit of it; was not worth looking at. I stick to my feelings that none of the candidates have what it takes.
I guess they have no clue at all what the job is all about. Let alone "healthcare"; they refuse to look at other countries where it "works" for an tenth of the cost compared to here.
I wrote about this before:
1) Have an government healthcare program for people who earn below $250K; everyone above it should get "private" insurance.
2) get the lobbyists out.
3)get the "pillmakers" adds to stop
4) Negotiate with doctors/hospitals/drug companies "fixed" prices. ( generic drugs etc. as well import drugs)
5) Allow "providers" like "United/ Humera/AARP to provide "plans"
6) Define "pre-conditions" properly.
For the rest "copy" other countries where it works, without "lobbyists"
If the candidates keep the blinders on it will become again an disaster for this country
that guy in AZ Wrote:
Exactly...... but Michelle Obama said that in 15/16 but was ignored. People simply can’t understand the evil dictatorial charisma that locks Trump supporters to him. Start attacking Trump and the “deplorables” will be energized to join the fight. Generally accepted that 3 or 4 states can determine the election. I hope the DNC doesn’t waste time or money on the given states like California but concentrate on Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania....... Should be easy Democratic wins unless they go in blazing at Trump.
My wife and I watched the entire debate, and found that we liked ALL of the candidates. In my opinion, the best statement was Kamala Harris's opening remarks, where she addressed Trump directly.
My favorites are still Elizabeth Warren and mayor Pete, but I also thought that Biden did a better job this time. Since I also liked Harris and Booker, it's going to be hard for me to pick just one candidate.
Howard Dean was on Trevor Noah's show the other day - and I suddenly feel a lot better about the Democrat's chances in 2020. Dean really isn't worried about Trump getting re-elected, since (in his opinion) Trump will defeat himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bc81gW8z8A&feature=youtu.be
Dean has the credentials to back up his predictions, due to the fact that he was the Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. In the early stages of the 2004 presidential race, he was the top fundraiser or leading candidate up until the Iowa caucus.
Dean formed the organization Democracy for America and later was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee in February 2005. As chairman of the party, Dean created and employed the 50 State Strategy that attempted to make Democrats competitive in normally conservative states often dismissed in the past as "solid red". The success of the strategy became apparent after the 2006 midterm elections, where Democrats took back the House and picked up seats in the Senate from normally Republican states such as Missouri and Montana. In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama used the 50 state strategy as the backbone of his candidacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean
All of us became over confident in the 2016 election, sine we all knew that an idiot like Trump couldn't possible get elected - and then he did.
This time around, though, I don't think we'll make that mistake again.
If the candidates focus on core issues, and less on Trump, we will definitely elect a Democrat for president in 2020.
Not true! I sounded the alarm as soon as Trump announced “Lots of good paying jobs”, I said he is a very formidable candidate because of lying at any he learned from Cohn and his charisma. I said then that he will be accepted no matter what he says or does. Was anything learned????
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Ripe With Surprises: Kelowna, British Columbia
Mountains, lake, orchards, wineries, and more
The city of Kelowna, located in the Okanagan Valley in the interior of British Columbia, is a popular winter and summer vacation spot. The mountains around it attract skiers in the winter. Orchards, wineries, beaches, and sunshine bring summer visitors. The scenery is always stunning. My husband, daughter and I travelled to Kelowna last summer.
Kelowna is situated on Lake Okanagan, a large, deep lake reputed to be home to Ogopogo, a lake monster resembling a sea serpent, which has allegedly been seen by First Nations peoples since the 19th century. We had no sightings during our visit.
Overlooking Lake Okanagan
The lake provides swimming, boating, fishing, and water sports. Surrounding mountains and forests provide not only a magnificent backdrop, but opportunities for hiking, cycling, and horseback riding. The climate of Kelowna is semi-arid and summers are sunny and dry, making the city’s scenic golf courses popular.
Downtown Kelowna features beaches, parks and a walkway along the waterfront. The streets next to the waterfront are filled with interesting shops, art galleries, and restaurants.
Mission Hill Winery vineyard
The Okanagan Valley is known for its production of fruit and wine. The Okanagan Wine and Orchard Museum in downtown Kelowna presents the history of wine and fruit production in the area.
Grapes, apples, and plums growing in the Kelowna area
At fruit and vegetable markets and farmers’ markets in and around Kelowna and West Kelowna, the community across the bridge, you can find local in-season produce to purchase and sample. Wineries throughout the region offer tastings and tours. Some provide entertainment on certain days. Some have restaurants. With close to thirty wineries in the Kelowna area and over forty in the Penticton area, fifty miles south of Kelowna, one could spend days visiting wineries. Our time in Kelowna was short and we only made it to a few, enjoying each visit.
At the Wine Shop, posters and calendars featuring winery doors or winery dogs are available for sale.
Here is the door and dog belonging to Camelot Vineyards, and the doors to The Vibrant Vine and Mission Hill Winery
Each winery has it own personality. Each has some unique twist to attract visitors and buyers. At The Vibrant Vine, we were provided with 3-D glasses to view their psychedelic art. The View Winery wine labels feature a red high-heel shoe. Wines produced by Therapy Vineyards in Naramata have names like Super Ego, Freudian Sip and Fizzio Therapy.
Mission Hill Winery
Father Pandosy Mission
In 1859, Oblate Missionaries established Immaculate Conception Mission. In 1892, the town of Kelowna was laid out. Kelowna is a native word for grizzly bear. The fruit industry came into being when Lord Aberdeen, later Governor-General of Canada, purchased a tract of land in the 1890s and planted extensive orchards.
Kelowna is easily accessible by road or air. It is 240 miles from Vancouver and 360 miles from Calgary. We drove from Vancouver, enjoying the scenic mountain views on the four hour drive along the Coquihalla Highway and Coquihalla Connector. On our return, we travelled south through Pentiction and back to Vancouver via the Princeton Highway.
At Penticton, we took a planned detour and drove the 10 miles from Penticton to Naramata. The road to Naramata is lined with wineries and bed and breakfasts. It winds past beautiful countryside with views down the hills and over lake Okanagan.
View from Therapy Vineyards in Naramata
Have you visited the Kelowna area? What attractions do you recommend?
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Summer revellers may be told to leave if too drunk
Two Cornish holiday destinations may turn revellers away this summer if they arrive at nightspots already drunk.
This month the #RU2drunk scheme will be rolled-out across Newquay and Truro and will run in 21 licensed premises, with the aim of reducing alcohol related crime in the two locations.
Pubs, bars and clubs will be provided with a breathalyser and each licensed premises will decide at what limit they want to set the device, anyone giving a higher reading than the limit maybe refused entry.
Over the last 12 months 30.6% of violent crime across Cornwall has been alcohol related and the scheme aims to reduce this by cutting down the number of people “pre-loading” which is seen as a contributory factor.
The joint scheme between partner agencies, licensed premises and the police and was successfully piloted in Torquay last year and is being funded by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.
Newquay Sector Inspector Dave Meredith, from Devon and Cornwall Police said: “There has been a massive change over recent years with many people “pre-loading” before going to pubs, bars and clubs and therefore when they arrive at venues they are already drunk. Now licensed premises have the decision to refuse entry we are hoping this may deter people from “pre-loading” prior to going out for the evening.
“The pilot in Torquay has showed a significant reduction to alcohol related crime, so we hope this can be replicated in Newquay and Truro.”
“We have been working closely with licensees in these locations for several years and this is another tactic we are implementing to try and discourage excessive drinking and further reduce alcohol related crime.”
Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Hogg said: “I am absolutely delighted that, after the success of the RU2drunk pilot in Torquay, this scheme is now going to be used in Newquay and Truro in time for the peak holiday season.
“The effect of “pre-loading” on our drinking culture, and the subsequent impact on crime levels, is enormous and undeniable. Innovative schemes like this are one way in which we can help to encourage responsible drinking. We need to reduce the number of people who get seriously drunk at home on cheap alcohol before they go out and then go on to cause trouble in town and city centre establishments later.
“In partnership with the police, it is pleasing that pubs and clubs acknowledge that introducing this scheme will help to make them safer places and reduce the demand on our already stretched policing resources.”
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Experience Your Europe Co-Sponsored Placement Programme
Experience Your Europe Co-Sponsored Placement Programme: Exciting new opportunities for Irish animation graduates in Germany
On 21 June 2016, the Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, was delighted to host a breakfast roundtable with 8 leading German animation companies, along with representatives of both EURES Ireland (the European Employment Services section of the Irish Department of Social Protection) and Animation Ireland, to present the Experience Your Europe (EYE) Co-sponsored Placement Programme, which will see a number to Irish animation graduates placed in leading German animation studios from Autumn 2016.
The aim of the EYE placement programme is to provide Irish animation graduates with an opportunity to have a 6- 12 month placement in a German animation studio from Autumn 2016, where they will develop their skills in fields such as animation, VFX, gaming, illustration, compositing and motion graphics. Embassy of Ireland, Berlin and EURES Ireland are currently working closely with German animation companies to expand the programme and establish new work placements in some of the country’s top animation studios.
Speaking about the placement programme, Ambassador Michael Collins said:
"We believe this European programme offers a fantastic opportunity for our young highly qualified Irish animation graduates to gain invaluable experience in leading German animation studios. Many Irish and German animation studios are already working together on co-productions and this is an opportunity for Ireland to further develop our links with Germany’s dynamic animation sector and of course for German animation studios to see at first hand the calibre of our animation graduates and indeed of Ireland’s wider animation industry.
We are of course very proud of our animation sector, which continues to excel each year on the world stage, and which we believe demonstrates the inherent creativity of the Irish people and Irish industry today. Trade between Ireland and Germany also continues each year, now valued at €25 billion per annum, and we hope that programme such as this will create further linkages and value between our two countries. We are very much looking forward to continuing to work with German animation studios to continue to grow this programme in the coming years.”
For further information on the EYE Co-sponsored Placement Programme please visit: http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Experience-Your-Europe.aspx or contact:
Ms. Deirdre Reid, EURES Deputy National Co-ordinator, deirdre.reid@welfare.ie
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DWFTRN May 7th welcomes Michael P. Maslanka and Arthur V. Lambert presenting on Non-competes!
Texas employment law on non-competes!
- Non competes (what they are and how they work)
- The best way to leave a company without getting sued
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- What to do about non-solicitation (poaching) agreements
- What is the legal process involved in enforcing non-competes
Michael P. Maslanka
Mr. Maslanka helps companies manage their workforces instead of their workforces managing them. Employees are indeed a human resource. If you treat them as a valuable asset, like money in the bank, they are going to pay a return over and over. I help employers treat their employees like that asset through counseling and drafting smart and effective policies. But we are dealing with human beings and they can pose a danger. It is my job to step in and defend and protect the company before governmental agencies, in litigation and, if needed, trial. How did he formulate these ideas? He wrote a book---actually, five of them---on employment law.
If you would like to discuss your current employment law issues, need information on Texas employment law, or my various experiences from practicing law across Texas, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.
Watch my VLOG ☛ http://bit.ly/TexasWorkplaceLaw
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Arthur V. Lambert
Mr. Lambert is a board-certified member of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in the area of Labor and Employment Law. He regularly litigates such employment issues as sexual harassment claims, discrimination charges, wrongful termination actions, and wage and hour disputes before federal and state courts and administrative agencies, as well as arbitration tribunals. He has extensive experience in all facets of litigation, including pre-trial motion practice, jury and bench trials, hearings and appeals. He also has handled class actions, multi-plaintiff actions and injunction proceedings. Mr. Lambert has also litigated a number of issues regarding employment agreements, such as non-compete and non-solicitation provisions.
In addition he counsels employers on issues ranging from hiring, firing and disciplinary policies, to family leave, reasonable accommodation and compensation.
Mr. Lambert frequently conducts in-house training seminars for managers and human resource professionals on diversity and discrimination issues to ensure compliance with the appropriate laws and regulations.
Mr. Lambert formerly was a partner in the Dallas office of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
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Deborah Baldwin
Award-winning Author / Drama Teacher / Director / Speaker
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Deborah Baldwin has been a drama teacher and director for nearly forty years. In college, she trained to become a professional actress but at the same time she studied to become a teacher, and they have helped each other.
She found a place for her imagination in high school–the stage! It was there that Deborah was cast in her first play. To this day, she becomes nostalgic whenever she steps backstage . The scent of sawdust, a can of paint and the warmth of the stage lights are a magical elixir that help her feel at home.
"My most profound epiphany occurred onstage many years ago. At the time, society had impressed upon me to hide my negative feelings or only express those feelings that were most accepted by others of any female in the early l970’s. I realized that by sharing myself with an audience through a character, I could express my feelings and thoughts. I felt accepted universally. That’s a heady experience." - Baldwin
After college, Deborah became a director and she took to it right away. "I have a leader type personality and directing fit into my life very easily. Once my first play was mounted, I saw the potential of affecting people through stories that I created in my own manner. I adore making a statement through words and actions. I know that I have had a great impact on audiences. They tell me so."
EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AWARD
St. Vrain Valley Schools
CULTURAL DIVERSITY AWARD for ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
National League of Cities and National Black Caucus of Elected Officials
Downtown Rotary Columbia, MO
Established English Language Learners Drama Club - the only club of its kind in the nation integrating dramatic arts into language
Directed at-risk, reluctant readers through staged readings - bringing up reading scores by three grade levels
As a teacher, Baldwin retained 95% of returning students in Musical Theatre class each year she taught and doubled enrollment in two additional classes.
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When Mrs. Baldwin joined the APEX staff, we had just proposed the idea of beginning a Musical Theater program at APEX, offering a 2-hour block class team taught by our drama and music teachers. We hired Mrs. Baldwin and the program was off the ground and up and running! In her 6 years with APEX, Mrs. Baldwin has directed 18 Broadway junior productions, an achievement that would take most drama teachers almost 20 years to achieve! APEX will forever be indebted to Debbie Baldwin for the heart and soul she has poured into our students, our program and our lives. - Kim Lancaster, APEX Program Director
Deborah Baldwin - Teacher
Stepping into Mrs. Baldwin's classroom means focus, it means attention to detail, and it means you've devoted yourself to unapologetically pursue progress, armed with ambition at your waist. It is not that these ideals are verbally forced upon you, but that Mrs. Baldwin's energy demands them. Mrs. Baldwin wasn't the first person to encourage me to take a drama class, but she was the first to nurture in me a love for it that will stick with me through all walks of life. Mrs. Baldwin gives her students great responsibility, and more importantly the courage to believe that they can live up to her expectations. Vivacious in character, and ever-generous in spirit, Mrs. Baldwin commands her classroom with a strong-will and a soft appreciation for beauty and sensitivity. Whether she is asking about your week paired with a full bellied laugh or telling you for the third time to get your scene on the right acting plane, Mrs. Baldwin teaches a drama class the same way you should make a cake, with deliberate direction and spoonfuls of extra sweetness. Mrs. Baldwin is forever the voice in the back of my head persuading me to perform more bravely, consider more thoughtfully, and speak with more diction!
Camille Taft
Deborah Baldwin is not only a lifetime friend, but also a master teacher. I was fortunate to teach with her for over 10 years. During that time we creatively collaborated daily and enhanced the lives of many middle school students. Debbie is by far one of the most creative and compassionate individuals I know and I hold her in very high esteem.
Melissa Straw
Teacher, Columbia, MO
I had the privilege of working with Deb Baldwin for 6 years as co-teachers of a musical theatre class. The class included students ranging from 3rd-12th grade and students who were in their first musical theatre experience through those who were regularly performing in professional theaters in the area. Deb was a first class teacher and a fantastic teammate. She knows how to help kids at each level of learning accomplish their very best. She's able to take that early beginner and give them skills to improve their performing ability while still challenging those who are veterans and are ready for the next level. Deb is fond of reminding the students that we are not members of the "good enough club" and therefore we don't accept mediocre effort from them. She runs a tight ship that is simultaneously full of fun, and energy. Her students come expecting to work hard, practice at home, and knowing that they will be proud of the performance they give. I am grateful for all of the time I had working with Deb and all that I learned from her and experienced alongside her.
Diana Austin
Vocal Music Teacher, Apex Home School Enrichment Program
Deborah Baldwin epitomizes the word “educator.” Though ‘retired,’ her goal of inspiring young minds through the arts has not lessened, nor is it likely to anytime soon. Baldwin’s inspiring written work is a joyous and entertaining offshoot of an even larger occupation: her life’s work. Her thoughtful and genuine heart, once reserved for children in a classroom, is now available to any child with an imagination. And how am I qualified to make this statement? I was part of her first class of students in 1976. I LIVED her gifts—now your child can too.
Randall Kenneth Jones
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Hallmarking dates back to the 1300s when Edward I of England passed a law requiring any item made of silver, which was offered for sale, to be at least of equal quality as that of the coin of the realm (silver currency). The wardens of The Goldsmiths' Company were tasked with visiting workshops in the City of London to assay (test) silver articles. If these articles were found to be below standard they were originally destroyed and the metal forfeited to the King. If they passed, each article received the King's mark of authentication - the mark of a leopard's head. By 1478, there were several hundred workshops and merchants manufacturing silver articles in the City of London. It was not possible for the wardens to visit them all so the merchants were ordered to bring their items to Goldsmiths' Hall for testing and marking and a permanent Assay Office was established in the building. This is the origin of the term hallmark - struck with the King's mark at Goldsmiths' Hall.
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Category: Sociology
Book Review: The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity by Jeffrey Sconce
Reviewed by Amy Ione.
The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity by Jeffrey Sconce is a robust and multidimensional reminder of the complexity of human consciousness. Moving from Enlightenment studies of electricity and human anatomy to our 21st century digitally-connected globe, this interdisciplinary study asserts that delusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over 200 years. One impressive feature of the study is how deftly Sconce weaves together case studies, literary source material, court cases, and popular media. Through this material he argues that we are moving toward an increasingly psychotic reality in which data practices will produce a world in which thought, reflection, and doubt will be disrupted by the very structures humans are putting in place. In his view, the current melding of big data and political power is creating a situation in which it is becoming more difficult to isolate precisely how (or perhaps where) bodies, the mind, electronics, and information intersect. He draws a parallel between psychotic disembodiment and electronic simulations:
Continue reading “Book Review: The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity by Jeffrey Sconce”
Author The Diatrope InstitutePosted on September 13, 2019 Categories Book Reviews, Cognitive and Neuroscience, History of Science, Medicine, Psychology, Sociology, TechnologyTags Amy Ione, Book Review, Electronics, Insanity, Jeffrey Sconce, Leonardo Reviews, Psychology
CONFERENCE: Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab: 21st Century Mobilizations
26th-27th SEPTEMBER 2019, KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
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This two-day interdisciplinary conference will be an important step toward building an international research network that focuses on the ways that race and biomedicine are mobilized beyond the lab in the 21st century. We seek to foreground how non-scientists are at the forefront of novel, plural, generative deployments of biomedical ideas of race that either entrench or resist historical ideas about race and its relation to biology across domains of environments, markets, and human rights.
Biomedical ideas of race have conventionally operated in two oppositional ways: notions of race as genetic or biological truth; and, conversely, accounts of health and health disparities as products of racism rather than caused by race itself. Debates about these opposing logics have never been completely cordoned off into domains of biomedical experts, but they are increasingly moving beyond the lab, and being deployed in diverse ways. Nonscientists are at the forefront of a range of deployments. On the one hand, biomedical ideas of race are being used by broader stakeholders to maintain historically entrenched ideas about race (e.g. pathologization of racialized groups to justify political repression and social service marginalization). On the other hand, biomedical ideas of race are also strategically mobilized in alternative directions, to stake claims and resist race-based injustice (e.g. identifying bodies in mass graves as racially indigenous in order to ground genocide claims in international courts).
Continue reading “CONFERENCE: Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab: 21st Century Mobilizations”
Author The Diatrope InstitutePosted on May 20, 2019 Categories Events, History of Science, Medicine, SociologyTags Biology, Biomedicine, Conference, Demography, Medical Humanities, Medical Lab, Race
EXHIBITION: New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival
April 25 – August 11, 2019
DePaul Art Museum
New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival is an exhibition of work from the last fifteen years by contemporary artists who appropriate, critique, or embrace “New Age” aesthetics and concerns from a 21st century perspective. Emerging in the 1960s and 1970s against a backdrop of war, social strife and a crisis of modernity, the multifaceted New Age “movement” was characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture, with an interest in spirituality, mysticism, holism, and environmentalism. It embodied a complicated conflation of politics, religion, science, social communities, art, music, and self-realization. Often dismissed for its association with drugged out hippies or flower-power children, how can New Age philosophies and practices be reconsidered today as relevant movement for social change and wellness?
Artists include:
Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Lise Haller Baggesen, Alun Be, Elijah Burgher, D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem, Whit Forrester, Desirée Holman, Cathy Hsiao, Michiko Itatani, Rashid Johnson, Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly, Jenny Kendler, Liz Magic Laser, Matt Morris, Shana Moulton, Heidi Norton, Tony Oursler, Mai-Thu Perret, Robert Pruitt, Bob Ross, Luis A. Sahagun, Mindy Rose Schwartz, Suzanne Treister, Rhonda Wheatley, Megan Whitmarsh and Jade Gordon, Saya Woolfalk
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Author The Diatrope InstitutePosted on May 7, 2019 Categories American Studies, Art Exhibitions, Art History, Blog, Painting, Sculpture, SociologyTags Aesthetics, Alternative Art, Art and Ritual, Found Objects, Hippie Art, Installation, Modernity, New Age, Sixties Art
Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves: Reviewed by Amy Ione
According to Roberto Simanowski, the author of Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves, this volume isn’t a book about Facebook. Rather his concern is what he calls Facebook society. His starting point is Facebook’s claim that it is building a “global community,” and his underlying assumption is that social-media platforms have altered social interaction, political life, and outlooks on the world, even for people who do not regularly use them. Bringing boundless enthusiasm to how Facebook and other social apps create community, this cultural studies perspective both celebrates networked society and offers a critique of problematic elements derived from digital communities, with a particular focus on our concept of the self.
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Author The Diatrope InstitutePosted on May 1, 2019 May 2, 2019 Categories Blog, Book Reviews, Film and Media Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, TechnologyTags Amy Ione, Community, Digital Community, Facebook, Identify, Modernity, Roberto Simanowski, Social Networks
Video Review: The Loving Story
Reviewed by Amy Ione, The Diatrope Institute, Berkeley, CA 94704 USA
Ironically, as I was wondering where to begin this review today, I noticed a car with two bumper stickers matching the sentiments I was tossing around in my mind. One read: “Hate is easy. Love takes courage.” The other said: “Got Constitution?” Both relate to the details of the Loving case, in which the United States Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage [or, held laws against interracial marriage to be unconstitutional, (prompted by a suit brought against the Commonwealth of Virginia by Richard and Mildred Loving)]. The Lovings, the key figures in this case, are captured in The Loving Story video, a film produced by Nancy Buirski and Elisabeth Haviland James and available through Icarus Films.
Married in Washington, D.C. on June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter returned home to Virginia where their marriage was declared illegal because he was white and she was black and Native American. At that time, anti-miscegenation laws – laws against interracial marriage – existed in 16 states. These kinds of laws are a typical consequence of states rights in the United States, a mechanism that allows different geographical areas to reflect the mores (and biases) of specific parts of the country.
Continue reading “Video Review: The Loving Story”
Author The Diatrope InstitutePosted on February 27, 2019 April 23, 2019 Categories American Studies, Blog, Book Reviews, History, SociologyTags 14th amendment, ACLU, Bernard S. Cohen, Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights, Grey Villet, Icarus Films, Interracial Marriage, Law, Leonardo Reviews, Loving v. Virginia, Mildred Loving, Miscegenation, Nancy Buirski, Philip J. Hirschkop, Richard Loving, Virginia, Warren Court
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Can you run for president with a nickname?
The two front-runners in the Republican presidential primary are commonly addressed by their nicknames. Though we refer to the former Speaker of the House as Newt, his real first name is Newton. His rival Mitt Romney’s real name is Willard Mitt Romney.
Nicknames are very common in English. The word nickname comes from an Old English word ekename, which meant “an additional name” and dates back to the 1300s. Some nicknames have obvious roots: Kim for Kimberley, Jim for James, Nick for Nicholas. Others are a little harder to wrap your mind around. How do you get Peggy from Margaret? Bo for William? Chuck from Charles? Polly from Mary?
Learn more about how our given names influence our lives here.
But what about our current candidates? Gingrich’s first name originally meant “new town” and has been used as a surname in English for over 1,000 years. (Newton is the 367th most common surname according to the U.S. Census.) Romney’s name dates back even farther than that. You can still find Romney on a map of England. As early as the 700s, “romney” literally meant “spacious river” in Old English and came to be associated with a region of southeast England called the Romney Marsh. (Romney is not even in the top 1000 most common surnames; neither is Gingrich.)
Nicknames are often just the shortening of a name, but they may sometimes be hypocoristics, meaning an endearing pet name, like Debbie for Deborah. Another interesting trend in nicknaming: Parents have started calling their kids by unusual nicknames for common names, such as Zander for Alexander, Drew for Andrew, or Toph for Christopher.
Here are a few words to help you talk about names. A surname is commonly called a last name, and your first name is technically called your forename or given name. Onomastics is the study of proper names.
Here are a few of our other favorite given name/nickname variations:
Sally for Sarah
Teddy for Edward
Tilly for Matilda
Jack for John
Betty for Elizabeth
What are your favorite nicknames?
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Perth and Kinross Council took action against developers almost every day
Officers closed over 400 cases
Kathryn Anderson
The owners of the Sun Shack in Perth said they decided to close the branch after the council served an enforcement notice on them
Perth and Kinross Council took up a new planning enforcement action nearly once every day last year, it has been revealed.
A total of 341 cases were taken up throughout 2018/19 relating to issues with developments across the region - the highest figure since 2014/15.
And council officers also closed over 400 cases during the same period.
Kinross-shire had more planning enforcement cases than any other ward.
Seventy-five cases were closed in the ward during 2018/19, making up 18.1 per cent of the total across the whole of the region.
Perth City Centre and Strathtay wards were the next highest with 47 cases and the lowest number of cases was in Perth City North with 12.
A report into enforcement action was discussed at last week’s environment and infrastructure committee meeting.
At the meeting, Lib Dem Kinross-shire councillor Willie Robertson queried why rates were so high for his ward when it made up only nine per cent of the entire Perth and Kinross population.
A council officer pointed out theproportion had actually dropped from 2017/18 when it sat at 20.1 per cent of the total cases in Perth and Kinross.
Kinross-shire independent councillor Michael Barnacle said the ward was under great pressure for development from the Edinburgh housing market.
Questions were posed as to whether this was due to the diligence of Kinross-shire residents while SNP councillor Andrew Parrott asked if it was due to the number of developments with Strathtay’s figures also being relatively high.
Only six per cent of the Perth and Kinross population live in Strathtay yet 11.4 per cent of the cases last year were in this ward.
Conservative councillor Roz McCall, who convenes the planning and development management committee, expressed her disappointment there was “little punishment through the legal system” for planning breaches.
According to a paper presented to councillors, alleged unauthorised development was the biggest reason for enforcement cases.
This was followed by breaches of planning conditions.
Despite the figures, only 32 notices were served, with one developer being reported to the procurator fiscal.
Incidents throughout 2018/19 included the former Sun Shack in Perth being ordered to remove pictures of bikini-clad women from its windows.
The move prompted the business to close the branch with the loss of around six jobs.
Already this year, a breach of planning condition has been issued at the Lathro Farm development in Kinross and at the former site of the Atrium in Perth.
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HomeMagazineDairy Farmers Remain Resilient in 2019
Tom Gallagher, Chief Executive Officer, Dairy Management Inc.
December 13, 2019 DairyBusiness News Team DP Magazine, Magazine December 16 2019 0
“Resilience” could be the word of the year for America’s dairy farm families in 2019. While on-farm prices have rebounded, farmers tell us that business is still challenging, but the overwhelming message has been that you are resilient and that you will go on.
Your resilience and dedication inspire us at the checkoff to work on your behalf, looking every day for ways to continue to increase demand for milk and other dairy products while finding new ways to build trust in the work you do on your farms.
We strive to be every bit as resilient as you, even as some people who want you out of business try to divide farmers and question the effectiveness of what we do. I figure that means they know the checkoff is the one force that can speak most effectively on your behalf.
At this year’s annual meeting in conjunction with the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), we shared how we are constantly working together to protect America’s 37,000 hard-working dairy farm families and to promote your story.
While we cannot directly impact your price, we can and do impact demand for your milk, which plays an important role in price. Fact is, we’ve seen 20-plus years of per capita dairy consumption growth, as milk production has increased and U.S. population growth has slowed.
Here are some highlights of what we’ve been doing to keep demand rising:
Category leaders’ heavy investment in your products. Foodservice partners including McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell have invested more than $100 million into efforts that offer more dairy-friendly menu choices to their loyal customers. A large contributing factor to their investment are the checkoff dairy food scientists working onsite in close partnership with these companies to help keep dairy front and center on their menus.
More school breakfasts that include dairy. Through Fuel Up to Play 60, a National Dairy Council partnership with the NFL that has USDA support and funding through GENYOUth, we’ve been getting more nutritious and delicious foods – including dairy – to America’s schoolkids. To the tune of 3 billion more school breakfasts since we began focusing on this avenue.
Fluid milk revitalization. Beyond kids and schools, we know that adults also have wanted a change in how fluid milk is offered to them. We no longer can rely on a 1950s mindset of serving milk out of a gallon every night at dinner. We are working with a variety of retail and foodservice partners – think McDonald’s Milk Jugs and fairlife – to reinvent milk beyond the traditional bulky white gallon, including new flavors, in new packaging, offered in new places. This already has resulted in 1.3 billion pounds in cumulative new product sales and $250 million in additional consumer advertising and marketing investments.
More U.S. dairy bought overseas. While we have enjoyed 2.5 percent growth in domestic sales this year, exports have provided a highly valuable market. Today, between 15 and 16 percent of American milk now flows overseas in a variety of ways, from milk to powder to cheese and other products, thanks to the strong leadership of former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and his staff at the checkoff-founded U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC).
One voice promoting and defending dairy. Working closely with NMPF, USDEC, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), MilkPEP, various co-ops, and others, we present a united front that keeps our eyes on the needs of America’s dairy farm families and the larger dairy industry. A healthy and whole dairy community is good for all of us.
Based on what we hear from dairy farmers on our board and elsewhere, 2019, especially the back half, has been better, but there is – as always – the future to consider. That’s why we have begun a comprehensive look at where we need to be not only in the next year or two, but in the next decade.
In an initiative called “Dairy 2030,” the checkoff is bringing together the best thinking in the dairy industry, academia and business to talk through possible future scenarios about farming, processing, consumers and technology that can impact how we all ensure a strong future for dairy and dairy farming in a constantly-changing market.
We are all aware of the headwinds we face, but like you, we remain steadfast and resilient in our belief that dairy will prevail. That’s the reason your dairy promotion checkoff is here, and we will continue to fight for consumer demand and your right to produce the best products on Earth.
Thanks for your inspiration, and let’s have a successful 2020.
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Nagaland District FactbookTM : Wokha District Share
Wokha district of Nagaland with its administrative headquarters located at Wokha city. According to 2011 census, the district encompasses a geographical area of 1628 sq km and has a population of 1,66,343 (persons) including 84,505 (males) and 81,838 (females). The district has a sex ratio of 968 (females for every 1000 males. The major religions in the district are Christian (95.13%) and Hindu (3.37%) of the total population respectively. The literacy rate in the district is 87.69% (persons), 90.81% (males) and 84.48% (females). Main spoken languages are Lotha (90.48%), Hindi (1.55%), Bengali (1.19%). Labour Force Participation Rate is 54.99%. The crime rate in the district is 33.06 for the year 2016. Total cropped area is 50,104 in hectares and the forest area is 1,306 in sq km (2017).
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Tutorial: Introduction to Git and Github
If you’re interested in a career in data science or software development, a working knowledge of version control is absolutely necessary. But what is version control, and how can it help us with day-to-day data science tasks?
Version control is the process of integrating and recording changes to code and other files from multiple collaborators. It’s important that you’re comfortable with version control for a few reasons:
Qualification: Employers are looking for candidates that understand version control and have experience using it to collaborate. When you’re programming professionally, it’s unlikely that you’ll be working on the code alone.
Experience: By acquiring basic version control skills, you make yourself capable of contributing to any of the millions of open source projects out there. This is a fantastic way to get programming experience.
Community: Popular data science tools such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Hadoop, Spark, and many others are open source. If you can use Git and GitHub, you can become an active participant in the open source data science community.
In this article, we’ll cover the fundamentals of Git and GitHub, the most popular version control solutions.
Git is a version control tool that provides all of the basic functionality.
GitHub is a platform that is built on top of Git to give teams another level of project organization, which includes issue tracking, code reviewing, and much more.
Version control might seem like funky command line magic, but it’s really just a way to integrate changes to a project. Keep that simple goal in mind, and you’ll have no trouble at all. Before we dive in to the nuts and bolts, we should discuss the collaborative workflow at an abstract level. Let’s assume we’re developers joining an established project.
Often times, the devlopment workflow begins at a project’s issue tracker. The issue tracker is a list of all the work that needs to be done on the project. Issues can be bugs that need to be fixed, features that need to be implemented, or any other sort of change that needs to be made. As a contributor to a project, you will likely either choose an issue or be assigned to one. When you start working on an issue, you’ll create a new branch associated with that issue. All of your work will take place on this branch.
Branches are parallel versions of a project. By compartmentalizing development tasks into branches, we make a much more organized project. Normally, there is a special branch called the “master” that holds the “live” version of the project. Branching allows developers to independently test their changes before they are combined, or “merged,” with the master branch.
If we want to see what's happening with other fixes before they're finished, we can “check out” different branches to observe the progress of different tasks.
A commit is simply a record of an “atomic” change - that is, a change which does not consist of multiple smaller changes. Commits live on branches, and they break up the timeline of changes associated with that branch.
For example, let’s say we’re working on implementing a rather complex feature. The idea behind making commits is to document individual changes that make up the implementation of the feature. Each time we make a change, we make a commit. That way, when someone reviews our code, that person can see a series of commits that detail our process for implementing the feature.
Pull requests are an important part of the development workflow. A pull request is a request to have our branch merged with the master branch. In other words, it’s a request to make our work, which has until now been happening on its isolated branch, become a part of the live project.
When we submit a pull request, we should provide a detailed description of the changes we made and the reasons we made those changes. If our changes are fixing an issue on the issue tracker, we'll want to include that information as well. For each pull request, GitHub provides a window that highlights all the differences between our branch and the master branch. Usually, another member of the project will review all of our changes. Almost always, there will be feedback that we will have to take action on. After everything looks good to a reviewer or two, our changes will be merged.
We understand the workflow, and now it’s time to work. Start by installing Git.
Let’s pretend we’re working on TensorFlow. The first thing we have to do is download the codebase to our machine so we can work with it.
From the repository’s page on GitHub, click on Fork in the top right. Forking a repository mirrors the repository on our account - so it lives at tensorflow/tensorflow, and it also lives at ourusername/tensorflow.
But we still haven’t downloaded anything, so let's get back to that. Click on Clone or download and then click on the clipboard icon to copy the URL to the clipboard. Now, open a command prompt, and navigate to a directory for the project with cd filepath. Then type git clone and paste the URL, and hit enter. This will download the repository and make it available in a subfolder of the current directory.
The next thing to do is tell Git where the project comes from. Go back to the tensorflow/tensorflow repository, click Clone or download, and click on the clipboard. Then, in the command prompt, type git remote add upstream, paste the URL, and hit enter. This tells Git that the directory is a project and it needs to talk to the repository specified by the URL we just gave it.
Generally, we should use git pull to retrieve the latest changes from the upstream before we start working. However, since we just cloned the repository a few minutes ago, this isn’t necessary right now.
At this point, we’re ready to start making changes. Let’s pretend that we were assigned the issue #0001: Really Really Bad Bug. We should start by creating a new branch to develop on. Type git checkout -b fix-really-really-bad-bug. The checkout command is actually the command to switch to a different branch, but by using the flag -b, we’re telling Git that the branch we are switching to needs to be created.
(If we wanted to create a new branch or switch to an existing branch separately, we could use git branch {new-branch-name} to create a new branch, or git checkout {branch-name} to switch to an existing branch.)
Now that we’re set up on our own branch, we’re ready to code.
As we’re working, we should make a commit each time we perform a basic change. If the issue is relatively small, we might only need one commit. For this Really Really Bad Bug, we’ll probably have to make a few commits. The way we break up commits is mostly up to the developer. One approach would be to make a commit each time we’re about to test our changes.
All commits contain a commit message that describes the changes associated with that commit. To make a commit, we must first stage the changes that we want to commit. If we’ve only changed one file, we can simply enter git add {filepath} in the command prompt. This step is necessary because sometimes we will have modified several files but we only want to commit the changes in one or two files. Next, enter git commit -m “commit message”. The commit message should be a few words that describe the changes associated with this commit. Note that the quotes are necessary. Alternatively, if there are no modified files that we don’t want committed, we can skip the staging step and just use git commit -a -m “{commit message}” to stage and commit all files.
When we’ve fixed the Really Really Bad Bug, tested it thoroughly, and made our final commit, we’re ready to send our changes in. We can type git push origin master fix-really-really-bad-bug in the command prompt and hit enter. This command tells git to send the changes on our local branch to the origin repository master branch.
If we go to the repository on GitHub after doing this, we should see a yellow notification, which means that the repository received our push. Click ‘Compare and pull request’. If you don’t see this notification, just click ‘New pull request’, then select the development branch on the pull request screen. Here we can fill out our pull request description and submit it for review.
We should also click on the Files changed tab to verify that everything that we changed was intentional.
We’re not perfect, so a reviewer will almost certainly request some changes to our implementation. No problem - simply make the changes, commit again, and push again. The new commit(s) will automatically be visible on the same pull request.
Conclusion
There we have it. That’s Git at a fundamental level. We should have everything we need to start contributing to some open source projects, or participate in a development team.
There’s a lot more to version control than just the fundamentals though, so be sure to check out the Dataquest course for a more in-depth and hands-on version control lesson.
Dawson Eliasen
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DATA FROM EXPECTED—AND UNEXPECTED—SOURCES As more information and new types of reports were being requested from the IT department, Southeastern Med knew its healthcare specific business intelligence solution couldn’t keep up. They needed a platform that could prepare and integrate real-time information with static historical data from a wide variety of sources. They also needed a way to make their vast stores of data more meaningful and actionable, as their current reporting was not aiding in the discovery of the types of insights their various units needed to take advantage of opportunities and head off risks quickly. Southeastern Med turned to next generation managed analytics technology from Datawatch Corporation to help track and report on hospital infections, improve physician performance, and identify trends in treatments. A MORE COMPLETE VIEW OF PATIENT, PROVIDER, AND HOSPITAL DATA Through the Datawatch Managed Analytics Platform, Southeastern Med can now create and share powerful visualizations that draw upon data they hadn’t been able to access in the past. In place of static charts and graphs drawn from limited historical data, the technology provides an interactive, intuitive visual analysis environment that lets users quickly access and prepare any data from any source to identify patterns and outliers, get answers on the fly, and gain new insights in true real time. What’s more, information previously locked in PDFs can now be accessed and analyzed to contribute to a more complete view of operational and health information, such as when and where infections occur. DATAWATCH DELIVERS The Datawatch Managed Analytics Platform is a quantum leap forward from the business intelligence tools typically used by healthcare providers. The ability to access unstructured data has allowed Southeastern Med to better track hospital-acquired infections, helping reduce incidence as well as costs. The hospital’s endoscopy unit saves approximately 15 hours each week by no longer generating limited, manual reports on the procedures performed. Instead, the Datawatch platform allows users to create rich visualizations in minutes. Not only does this save time, it helps reveal unexpected outliers and trends that provide greater visibility into treatment administration. The hospital also uses Datawatch dashboards to gauge physician performance. Datawatch enables hospital administrators to create scorecards and visualize costs and success rates associated with individual providers, as well as identify ways to improve best practices. SOUTHEASTERN OHIO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER An acute healthcare center and community hospital, Southeastern Med serves more than 4,000 inpatients and 100,000 outpatients in the Cambridge, Ohio area each year. The center relies heavily on technology to keep up with growing patient needs. INDUSTRY Healthcare FUNCTION Community Hospital CHALLENGE Southeastern Med needed greater business intelligence reporting capabilities than its healthcare-specific provider could provide. In order to glean actionable insights, the medical center needed to tap a wider variety of data sources. SOLUTION The Datawatch Managed Analytics Platform allows Southeastern Med to access, prepare and analyze unstructured and structured data from virtually any information source. BENEFITS Today, hospital administrators can quickly visualize trends and challenges related to specific conditions, treatments, personnel, and more, for enhanced patient care at lower costs.
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How Fast Is the Internets in Your Country?
DiscoblogBy Boonsri DickinsonSeptember 1, 2009 3:15 AM
These days, Internet speeds are an international bragging point. In a report issued by the Communications Workers of America, South Korea apparently wins, with the fastest Internet speed time in the world, clocking in at 20.4 megabits per second. That’s four times faster that what we get here in the U.S.—on average, about 5.1 mbps. Physorg.com reports:
"The US has not made significant improvement in the speeds at which residents connect to the Internet," the report said. "Our nation continues to fall far behind other countries." "People in Japan can upload a high-definition video in 12 minutes, compared to a grueling 2.5 hours at the US average upload speed," the report said.
Fine, so the Japanese can download videos faster than we can (not that we’re jealous or anything). Of course, not too surprisingly, there’s a disparity even within the U.S.—people living in areas like New York have faster Web service, while states like Alaska and Montana enjoy the slowest Internet speeds. Apparently, during the speedmatters.org test, 18 percent of the people downloading material in the U.S. did so at speeds that are considered merely "basic broadband" connection. Ouch! Related Content: Discoblog: All-Knowing Search Engine DISCOVER: How Much Does The Internet Weigh?
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Exactly What Happens to Your Vagina When You Stop Having Sex
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There are a number of healthy benefits to having sex. In addition to a rush of pleasure (the clitoris doesn't have thousands of nerve endings for nothing!), sex also burns calories, reduces stress, and even acts as a natural pain reliever. Sign me up!
But—married, single, or anything in between—we all go through dry spells now and then, and you may be wondering what happens to the vagina when you're not getting it on every night.
Whether you've recently broken up with a partner or your libido has taken a nose dive, the frequency with which you have sex is likely to ebb and flow throughout your life. And when it ebbs, it's helpful to know what to expect, so we spoke with two OB/GYNs to get the facts about the changes you may see down there when you take a break from sex.
If you're premenopausal, you may lose elasticity temporarily
"The vagina is an elastic tube," says Salena Zanotti, MD, an OB/GYN at Avon Pointe Family Health Center in Avon, Ohio. If it hasn't been used in some time, then it may get a little tighter. But she says, "It will go back to its original elasticity in a woman who is of premenopausal age."
That's thanks to the hormone estrogen, which helps maintain elasticity and lubrication in the vagina. Because premenopausal women still produce plenty of estrogen, they shouldn't have to worry about permanently losing elasticity even after a long period of abstinence.
If you're postmenopausal, you may lose elasticity permanently
Unlike their premenopausal counterparts, Dr. Zanotti says postmenopausal women have a higher chance of experiencing a more permanent loss of vaginal elasticity after a prolonged period without sex. That's because their bodies produce less estrogen, which can lead to a loss of elasticity and lubrication in the vagina."It's really hard to get [the vagina] to stretch out again after menopause," Dr. Zanotti says. In the case of postmenopausal women who are looking to maintain a certain level of vaginal elasticity, the phrase "use it or lose it" may apply. The good news is that there are plenty of personal lubricants you can use, in addition to gentle stimulation, that can help combat vaginal dryness.
You definitely won't grow a new hymen
"That is a complete fallacy," says Dr. Zanotti. "The hymen is a vaginal remnant that's there from development. It's something that's broken through when a woman [first] has intercourse or maybe uses a tampon. That tissue does not regrow. It cannot close up."
Women who are late into menopause may experience a slight shrinking of the vaginal opening, Dr. Zanotti says. "But there's no regrowth of a hymen at any point in anyone's life."
You're not going to "dry up"
Just as many people mistakenly believe that women regrow their hymens after long periods of abstinence, there are also some claims floating around that abstinent women's vaginas "dry up."
But Adeeti Gupta, an OB/GYN and founder of Walk In GYN Care in New York City, says this is another myth. "Please do not think that 'everything is going to dry up down there' because of no activity," she says. One possible exception to this rule? As noted above, postmenopausal women are more likely to experience vaginal dryness. That's thanks to reduced estrogen levels, not abstinence.
Your arousal could change
Just as initiating a new sexual relationship might heighten your libido, Dr. Gupta says it may also increase arousal and "make the experience more sensual."
Whether you're sexually active or sexually abstinent, Dr. Zanotti says that arousal is always highly variable. "Everyone has a different amount of time to reach that climax," she says. "It's so individualized, not within just the woman but also with that person they're gonna be with."
For this reason, Dr. Zanotti says it's important for women to allow their arousal to manifest however it does during each sexual encounter. "I think [women should] feel comfortable with it and not feel guilty about it," she says.
If you go off birth control, you may experience changes in lubrication or libido
If you decide to stop using hormonal birth control on account of being sexually inactive, then this may lead to some changes. "When you go off whatever hormones you were on and you're still of reproductive age, your ovaries are gonna kick in," Dr. Zanotti says. In addition to changing up your menstruation, this might also mean that you experience more natural lubrication and/or heightened libido.
If you use oral contraceptives, you may experience dryness
While you won't "dry up" strictly because of abstaining from sex, oral contraceptives may provoke a slight drying effect. No matter whether you're having sex regularly or have stopped getting it on, Dr. Zanotti says that one of the side effects of birth control pills is a change in vaginal fluids, which means you can experience more lubrication or less of it. "Younger women will sometimes complain of vaginal dryness when they're on certain hormonal contraceptives, and there can be a little suppression of their own vaginal lubrication," she says.
Your sex drive won't change
Dr. Gupta says that abstaining from sex after having been sexually active is unlikely to have any impact on your libido. You'll still feel sexual desire just as you did when you had a sexual partner.
However, Dr. Gupta does point out that your expectations around sex might change in ways that can make sex more or less enjoyable when you become sexually active again. "Sometimes, having sex after a long period of abstinence may feel a little different in terms of, either quite exciting or a little uncomfortable from the stretching," she says.
More about that uncomfortable feeling during stretching...
Because most women experience a slight tightening of the vagina after a prolonged period of abstinence, Dr. Zanotti says that "The first few times you have intercourse after an absence, it's going to be a little bit uncomfortable."
But for premenopausal women, this should be a temporary sensation. "Again, the elasticity comes back," Dr. Zanotti says. Postmenopausal women, on the other hand, may find that it takes a little more effort (in the form of lubrication and stimulation) to achieve comfortable sex.
Once you have a new sexual partner, your libido may increase
Even though your sex drive is unlikely to change while you're abstaining from sex, you may notice an uptick in your libido if you become sexually active again.
"Having a new partner is exciting enough that it stimulates your libido," Dr. Zanotti says. "A lot of couples who have been together for a long time can get into a rut. When you have been abstinent for a little while and you have the excitement of a new partner, that can [increase libido again]."
You're less likely to develop a UTI
Simply having sex is a common cause of urinary tract infections (UTI), since the general motion can transfer bacteria from the bowel or vaginal cavity further into the urethra (aka the tube that urine flows out of), says Kyra C. Williams, an OB/GYN at Penn Medicine. Still, there are other UTI causes to keep on your radar, such as menopause, holding in your urine, and constipation.
And if you are having sex, not to worry. More blood flow to the vagina through intercourse can help keep the vagina healthy, Dr. Williams says. You can lower your risk of developing a UTI through intercourse by going to the bathroom immediately after sex.
Laura Newcomer Laura Newcomer is a professional copywriter and content strategy consultant who specializes in the health and wellness space. Nicol Natale Assistant Editor Currently an assistant editor at Prevention.com, Nicol is a Manhattan-based journalist who specializes in health, wellness, beauty, fashion, business, and lifestyle.
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Overground Railroad (Hardcover)
By Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome (Illustrator)
Ruth Ellen's odyssey on the New York Bound Silver Meteor is the start of a new life up North that she can't begin to imagine in this gorgeously illustrated picture book.
In poems, illustrated with collage art, a perceptive girl tells the story of her train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration. Each leg of the trip brings new revelations as scenes out the window of folks working in fields give way to the Delaware River, the curtain that separates the colored car is removed, and glimpses of the freedom and opportunity the family hopes to find come into view.
Overground Railroad offers a window into a child's experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators behind Finding Langston, Before She was Harriet, Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson, and Just a Lucky So and So.
Praise for Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome's Before She Was Harriet, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and winner of the Christopher Award
* "Simultaneously simple enough for young children to understand and sophisticated enough to inspire adults."--Booklist, Starred Review
* "Ransome's lavishly detailed and expansive double-page spreads situate young readers in each time and place as the text takes them further into the past."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
* "a powerful reminder of how all children carry within them the potential for greatness."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
* "This lovely tribute effectively communicates Tubman's everlasting bravery and resolve, and will inspire curious readers to learn more."--School Library Journal, Starred Review
Lesa Cline-Ransome has written many books for children, including Before She Was Harriet, which received five starred reviews, a Coretta Scott King Honor, and a Christopher Award, and her debut middle grade novel Finding Langston, which received a Coretta Scott King Honor and five starred reviews. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and collaborator, illustrator James E. Ransome.
James E. Ransome's numerous accolades include a Coretta Scott King Medal, two Coretta Scott King Honors, and an NAACP Image Award. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and collaborator, writer Lesa Cline-Ransome.
★ "Warm portraiture and vivid writing by married collaborators Cline-Ransome and Ransome (Before She Was Harriet) mark this story of a family’s journey north during the Great Migration. . . . Ransome renders the scenes realistically in bold colors, strong lines, and delicate collage-like patterns. . . . The journey is seen through the eyes of richly developed characters drawn with care and sympathy."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
★ "Ransome's watercolor-and-collage illustrations effectively capture both the historical setting and the trepidation of a family who though not enslaved, nevertheless must escape as if they were. Cotton bolls throughout the images accentuate cotton's economic dominance in the sharecropping system. A beautiful portrayal of a historic and arduous family journey northward."—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
"Through handsome collage, pencil and watercolor illustrations and lyrical free verse, the family's hopeful journey to find better jobs, homes and rights shows readers a major moment in the large scope of African American history. . . . Young readers will likely be drawn in by the author's riff on a familiar phrase in the title, as well as the spare but poetic language in which Ruthie narrates her long day's journey"—Shelf Awareness
Publisher: Holiday House
Publication Date: January 7th, 2020
Minimum Grade Level: P
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Anna-Maria Ferchichi Wiki, Age, Husband, Height, Family & Biography
Anna-Maria Ferchichi (born November 13, 1981) is a German Model and Homemaker from Delmenhorst, Germany. She is the wife of Bushido (Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi).
He is the famous German rapper, hip-hop producer, entrepreneur and co-founder of record label “ersguterjunge“. Furthermore, the 36-year-old model is the younger sister of Sarah Connor.
Moreover, Sarah is also a famous German singer, songwriter, and TV personality. In 2008, Anna Maria also appeared in the “Sarah & Marc Crazy in Love” (German Documentary and Reality Show). It broadcasted on the station “ProSieben” in Germany.
In addition, she married thrice in her life. Earlier, Anna was the wife of the “Pekka Lagerblom” (Finnish Football Player). Pekka was her second husband. Later, she remained in the relationship with “Mesut Özil“. But their love life couldn’t last forever and they split.
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Anna-Maria Ferchichi Biography (Bushido’s Wife) Age, Height, Parents, Net worth, Boyfriend & Profile
How old is Bushido’s wife? She was born on the 13th of November 1981 in Delmenhorst, Germany. As of 2018, Anna-Maria Ferchichi’s age is Thirty-six (36) years old. Her parents are Michael Lewe (father) and Soraya Lewe-tacke (mother). Maria belongs to Caucasian-White ethnicity descent.
Furthermore, the beautiful model also has five siblings. She has four sisters Sarah Connor, Lulu Lewe, Marisa Lewe, and Valentina Lewe. Anna also has a brother named Robin Lewe.
Her parents divorced each other spending the majority of their life together. Moreover, the 36-year-old homemaker also has two half-siblings Mick and Lex (the twins). They are her mother’s children from her marriage with a doctor “Jürgen Tacke”.
As for her education, she is a high school graduate. At a very young age, Maria developed her interest in her interest in the fashion world. Hence, she started modeling after her school.
In 2000, the model married her first husband “Pravit Anantapongse”. There is not much information present about him on the internet. But Pravit is a dancer by profession. In fact, he was the dancer from the touring band of her sister “Sarah Connor”. The couple also welcomed a son “Montry Lewe” together in 2002. Unfortunately, their marriage ended up in divorce.
Furthermore, in 2005, Maria wed with her second husband “Pekka Lagerblom”. The couple also dated each other before their wedding. But their love life also ended in 2009 in divorce.
Later, she started dating her boyfriend “Mesut Özil”. He is a German-Turkish football player. In fact, the model also changed her religion from Christianity to Islam after she fell in love with him. Moreover, she also took the Turkish first name Melek.
The partner separated at the end of 2010. Moreover, the 36-year-old celebrity started her relationship with German Rapper. In early 2011, the couple engaged. Later on May 23, 2012, Anna married her third spouse “Bushido”. The wedding took place in Berlin-Zehlendorf.
The lovebirds welcomed their daughter “Aaliyah Ferchichi” together in July 2012. According to the sources, Anna-Maria also has three more children but we have no information about it.
Personal Life Information
Full Birth Name Anna Maria Ferchichi.
Nick name Anna.
Working As 1. Model.
2. Homemaker.
Age Thirty-six (36) years old (As of 2018).
Date of Birth (DOB), Birthday 13th November 1981.
Birthplace/Hometown Delmenhorst, Germany.
Nationality German.
Gender Female.
Star Sign (Zodiac Sign) Scorpio.
Ethnicity Caucasian White.
Religion Islam.
Current Residence Berlin, Germany.
Famous for The wife of Bushido (German rapper).
Physical Statistics
Height (Tall) Feet & Inches: 5' 9.5".
Centimeters: 178 cm.
Meters: 1.78 m.
Weight Kilograms: 62 Kg.
Pounds: 136 lbs.
Bra Size 33B.
Body Measurements (Breast-waist-hips) 34-29-37.
Shoe Size (US) 9.
Tattoo details? None.
Eye Color Brown.
Hair Color Dark Brown.
Parents Father: Michael Lewe.
Mother: Soraya Lewe-tacke.
Siblings Sister: 1. Sarah Connor.
2. Lulu Lewe.
3. Marisa Lewe.
4. Valentina Lewe.
Brother: Robin Lewe.
Famous Relatives Not Known
Anna Maria Ferchichi Husband & Relationship
Marital Status Married.
Dating History? Mesut Özil.
Boyfriend Name not Available.
Husband/Spouse Name 1. Pravit Anantapongse (ex-husband).
2. Pekka Lagerblom (m. 2005–2009).
2. Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi aka Bushido.
Son Montry Lewe.
Daughter Aaliyah Ferchichi.
Highest Qualification Graduate.
School High School.
College/ University Will update.
Hobbies & Favorite Things
Favorite Celebrities Actor: Michael Fassbender.
Actress: Josefine Preuß.
Dream Holiday Destination London and Italy.
Favorite Color Red and Dusty Rose.
Love to do Reading, Listening to music, and Traveling.
Favorite Food Continental Food.
Anna Maria Ferchichi Net worth
Net Asset Approx. $1 million USD (As of 2018).
Salary Per Episode Will Update.
Home Details Not Known
Mobile or Phone Number N.A.
Email Address Will update soon.
Official Website Not Available.
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Three Days Grace – The Outsider Tour with Special Guests
Whether you love the originals or new tunes, join Canadian rockers Three Days Grace as they head coast-to-coast in their native Canada with THE OUTSIDER TOUR in support of their sixth full-length album, Outsider. Presented by 100.3 The Bear, they’ll rock the roof off Edmonton’s downtown convention centre with special guests Nothing More and Bad Wolves.
Since 2003, Three Days Grace has staked a spot amongst the hard rock vanguard, quietly breaking records, toppling charts, moving millions of units worldwide, and making history. The Ontario, Canada quartet—Matt Walst (lead vocals), Barry Stock (lead guitar), Brad Walst (bass), and Neil Sanderson (drums, percussion, keyboards, programming) – continue to blaze that trail on their sixth full-length album.
“Infra-red” is the new single from Three Days Grace’s sixth studio album Outsider. The song is the follow up to their 14th #1 chart topping single “The Mountain,” also featured on Outsider. Three Days Grace continues to hold the all-time record for most #1 singles at the Active Rock radio format. Given this undeniable unpredictability, Outsider feels right at home alongside a catalog of fan favorites from Three Days Grace. Outsiders always leave enduring impressions. By veering away from the pack, these mavericks confidently lead the charge for others to follow. In the end, Outsider speaks directly to that army of fans around the globe.
“To me, Outsider represents the journey to find your place,” says bass player Brad Walst. “The world feels crazy at times. We try to get away from that every once in a while. We do our own thing, and we’re comfortable doing it. We have always looked forward—and not backwards. That’s an ongoing theme.”
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Journalism Schools In Michigan
In Michigan, there are 20 accredited schools where journalism classes faculty can find employment. The following statistics and charts help analyze the current state of the journalism academic community in Michigan, and the future trends in journalism training at the following levels:
611 E Porter St, Albion, Michigan 49224
Alpena Community College
665 Johnson St, Alpena, Michigan 49707
Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104
Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
E 4946 Jackson Rd, Ironwood, Michigan 49938
1001 E Beltline Ave NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49525-5897
143 Bostwick Ave NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503-3295
1 Campus Dr, Allendale, Michigan 49401-9403
Kellogg Community College
450 North Ave, Battle Creek, Michigan 49017-3397
36600 Schoolcraft Rd, Livonia, Michigan 48150-1176
East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1046
University of Michigan-Flint
303 E Kearsley, Flint, Michigan 48502-1950
Rochester Hills, Michigan 48309-4401
320 South Main Street, Olivet, Michigan 49076
3333 East Beltline N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49525-9781
106 E. Main St, Spring Arbor, Michigan 49283-9799
Washtenaw Community College
4800 E Huron River Dr, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-4800
656 West Kirby Street, Detroit, Michigan 48202
1903 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5167
Journalism Schools in Grand Rapids, MI3 Schools
Journalism Schools in Alpena, MI1 Schools
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Michigan Vs. National Journalism Employment
Michigan 2,790
Of all of the journalism professionals in the country, nearly 3% are in the state of Michigan.
Employment Growth for Journalism professionals In Michigan
In Michigan, the field of journalism is shrinking. There were 530 less journalism professionals working in Michigan in 2010, than there were in 2006. Thus, in Michigan, this field has shrunk by 16% in four years. This decline is faster than the national trend for journalism professionals which shows a 12% decrease in the number of journalism professionals working around the nation.
Journalism VS. All Professions salaries in Michigan
Light Blue: Journalism
The salaries paid to journalism professionals are declining in Michigan. Journalism professionals earned a yearly mean salary of $52,040 in 2006. They earned a yearly mean salary of $41,443 in 2010.
Salary percentiles for Journalism professionals in Michigan
Thus, journalism professionals' salaries declined by 26% in 4 years. State trends for all professions are quite different from this decline. Within the field of journalism, there is a huge variation in pay, with the highest paid journalism professionals earning 276% more money than those in the bottom 10% of the pay bracket in Michigan state.
Average Salaries for Journalism professionals and related professions in Michigan
Creative Writing $50,740
Journalism $41,443
In Michigan, journalism professionals make, on average, less than their counterparts in related professions.
Journalism programs available for each degree type for all schools in Michigan
As the number of journalism professionals is decreasing in Michigan state, the number of students graduating from the 20 accredited journalism schools in Michigan state is decreasing. In 2006, 411 students graduated from journalism courses in Michigan. And in 2010, 393 students graduated.
There was a decrease in the number of journalism school degree or certificate graduates in Michigan by 4%. 70% of these graduates received a bachelor's degree in journalism.
Journalism Faculty Salaries in Michigan
The number of journalism faculty, growth in the field of journalism academia and journalism faculty salaries in Michigan, is all data we are currently in the process of collecting. Your anonymous submission of information regarding your career and salary will help us create a valuable career planning database for the benefit of journalism faculty at the associates degree in journalism, bachelors degree in journalism, and masters degree in journalism levels in Michigan. Once you submit your information, you will get a chance to see the data we have collected thus far.
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"Methodical, but worth digging up."
Even the titles of Corneliu Porumboiu's best-known recent films - "12:08 Easy of Bucharest" and "Police, Adjective" - are focused on a sort of precision that can sometimes be maddening and "The Treasure", ("Comoara" in the original Romanian) certainly starts out that way, hitting the audience right off the bat with a pair of the sort of conversations about minutiae that just don't happen outside of art-house films. It does eventually loosen up into a deadpan comedy, but that humor might not be enough for some considering the painstaking steps Porumboiu takes to get there.
The film centers on Costi Toma (Toma Cuzin), who is getting by a bit better than many in Bucharest, but still doesn't have enough money to float his neighbor Adrian Negoescu (Adrian Purcarescu) the loan he asks for. Not at first, at least; when Negoescu finally explains that his great-grandfather buried valuables on the family estate before it was sized by the communists (with the land only returned to the descendants relatively recently), Costi grows interested and scrapes enough together to hire a guy with access to a metal detector. Once he has stated along the path, the operation becomes more questionable - the government tends to seize anything with historical and cultural significance (interpreted broadly), and the details of Negoescu's story seem to become a little less favorable with each telling.
Costi is detail-oriented and basically honest, which would seem to be about half-useful in terms of this particular scheme. It also gives the film a dry sort of start as he initiates protracted discussions with both his son Alin (Nicodim Toma) and Negoescu about things that seem extremely extraneous. That Toma Cuzin and Porumboiu opt to underplay the character initially seems like a curious choice - there are beats that, if emphasized, could give Costi a stronger personality or make what's slow going more dramatic - but it pays off later on when the audience is able to get a fuller picture: We see a man who is curious but not obsessive, on the lookout for opportunity but not necessarily greedy, and mostly level-headed and conciliatory. That kind of man is not usually an exciting character, and though it describes most in the audience, viewers don't necessarily identify with him because they tend to grab on to something that sticks out. Still, by the time the film is over, an affection has likely developed for this man; Cuzin and Porumboiu have quietly brought his virtues to the fore, even if they are sometimes well-disguised.
The big contrast with Costi's neighbor is that Negoescu does not seem particularly interested in unexpected things, although the abrasiveness that will appear later is not initially apparent. Indeed, he's the one with a story or two that the audience will likely latch onto, with a family reduced from its deserved place by the government and the economic downturn wiping out his business. Still, Porumboiu and actor Adrian Purcarescu make sure that there's something a bit sketchy about him from the start - not quite dishonesty, but he is perhaps more enamored with ideas than execution. In the way that the viewer grows fond of Costi, he or she may lose patience with Negoescu; the man is not evil, but he is that guy where the little things add up.
That's not exactly the description of two icons in opposition, especially once you add in Corneliu Cozmei as the guy with the metal detector bridging the gap and creating a little common ground in the mild corruption everybody on this endeavor shares. Porumboiu is methodical through much of the movie, probably too much so; for as much as being level-headed is a virtue, nearly every conversation seems to be rather blandly informational to a level of detail will past what is relevant. The are occasional moments of whimsy, such as when Costi explains his absence from the office to a boss who insists that the real story is an affair between Costi and a co-worker,but things don't really pick up until the group gets to the old family property. There's still a lot of detailed explaining going on there, but the contrasting personalities of Costi, Negoescu, and Cornel get brought into relief, and things start to more clearly happen the way they do because of the types of people involved.
As the film moves into its final act, deadpan comedy moves to the fore, but it's often the type that can make the viewer worry a little, as the film that has been so focused on being reasonable starts to make jokes about excess. Happily, Porumboiu doesn't forget himself; threw are a number of sweetly charming bits beyond that, and while the Robin Hood story Costi is telling Alin at the beginning doesn't necessarily get called back in terms of stealing from the rich to give to the poor, there's a quiet sense of adventure, with one mystery perhaps leading to another, while the always linguistically-precise director very aware that he has been using "treasure" when something like "hoard" might have been a better description for what the characters sought.
As impressive as the film is when examined closely, there's no denying that some of the biggest laughs come as heavy metal band Laibach's "Opts Dei (Life is Life)" plays over the end credits, what with it seeming so ill-matched to the volume level of the film. That and the other small joys toward the end may not seem like enough, even for a short feature, but quiet is nice every once in a while.
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Transport ministers embrace integration
Strategy to reverse emissions lays emphasis on road pricing, land use planning, public transport
An environmental integration strategy agreed by yesterday's Transport Council meeting pledges to give environmental issues "equal weight" with economic and social factors in future EU transport policy making. The strategy is the first of three sectoral integration papers due to be submitted to EU heads of government in Helsinki in December. EU energy and agriculture ministers are expected to follow suit shortly.
The transport integration paper identifies growth in carbon dioxide emissions and expected growth in transport as areas where the need for further action are most urgent. It accepts that an indefinite continuation of current trends is unsustainable and states that projected growth in transport greenhouse gas emissions "must be reversed if the [EU] is to meet its commitments under the Kyoto protocol".
As requested by EU heads of government last December, the paper goes some way towards giving information on indicators and a timetable for follow-up. Transport ministers will "flesh out" operational parts of the strategy between 2000 and 2004 with a first review in June 2001, it says, while actions to restrain greenhouse gas emissions should be able to demonstrate progress towards compliance with the Kyoto protocol by 2005. Turning to indicators, the paper notes that regular reporting is due to start this year with a first document due from the European Environment Agency.
Ministers call on EU member states and the European Commission to draw up policy packages to "influence [transport patterns] into a sustainable direction." As a key measure, the paper recommends "further progress" in fair and efficient pricing for the use of transport infrastructure, such as the kilometre taxes suggested in a Commission white paper last year (ENDS Daily 22 July 1998). The environmental costs of transport, it says, "may not be fully covered by current taxes and charges." Ministers call on the Commission to make new proposals on transport pricing by the middle of next year.
Other priorities, the report says, are the promotion of land use planning practices to reduce the demand for transport, a common transport policy which "puts public transport on a better footing in relation to private cars," and the use of telematics and a better coordination of "intermodal" transport.
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Define engulfment, implosion, and petrification in R.D. Laing's The Divided Self. How can we apply these on a schizophrenic patient?
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Under the heading of "ontological anxiety" Laing invokes the work of Kafka, Beckett, and Shakespeare to describe the the sense of non-existence which often permeates the life of those suffering from emotional challenges, which may metastasize into psychosis and schizophrenia.
He describes three forms in which such ontological anxiety becomes manifest: engulfment, implosion, and petrification or depersonalization.
A person afflicted with engulfment is one whose sense of identity is so fragile as to be constantly under siege. Such a person can feel overwhelmed in a mundane conversation to the extent that simply losing an argument means the extinction of their identity.
The experience of implosion transpires in a person who already feels completely empty and void of emotion. For such a character, any type of contact with reality is terrifying in its power to obliterate or 'implode' their identity.
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Best IVF Centres in Poland with High Success Rates
This list of top IVF centres in Poland includes hospitals like Gyncentrum, InviMed, Klinika Bocian, and The Fertility Partnership. This research of best IVF centres in Poland is based on service, success rates, and patient feedback for each of these IVF clinics in Poland.
Most of the IVF centres in Poland in today’s time are aiming and working on offering quality infertility treatments to patients visiting the country from different parts of the world. In the year 2015, for the first time in Poland, a law associated with infertility treatments was introduced in the form of an act known as “Polish Infertility Treatment Act.” This act has a set of eligibility criteria for couples planning to opt for the procedure. This act also involves several aspects of embryo donation, which is an important part of IVF procedure. (1) As per one of the reports of Global News Tribune, IVF procedure with additional techniques help in achieving improved treatment success rates for couples. The demand and use of devices and IVF procedures in European countries like Poland has increased to a great extent in the recent years. (2) In this article, you will find information about best IVF centres in Poland, which consist of top IVF doctors in Poland.
Best IVF Centres in Poland
Gyncentrum
InviMed
The Fertility Partnership
1. Gyncentrum:
Gyncentrum is one of the top infertility diagnosis and treatment clinics in Poland. The prime specialties at Gyncentrum include infertility and prenatal diagnosis. There are 4 branches spread across Gyncentrum, which caters to the infertility treatment requirements of patients. The patients getting treated at Gyncentrum can reap benefits of International Bank of Seeds and Egg Cells Gyncentrum. With the help of this feature, patients have to wait less for oocytes required in their chosen infertility treatments. Prenatal diagnosis facilities at Gyncentrum prove to be useful for patients. The centre also comprises of modern prenatal laboratory as well as 3D / 4D HD Live ultrasound. The advanced technologies utilized at the centre include Oosight System, EmbryoGlue, EmbryoGen, Assisted Hatching, and SCA / CASA system.
The specialists practicing at the centre are certified with Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) and Polish Gynecological Society. The centre also offers free prenatal tests during first and second pregnancy trimester of pregnancy. Presently, Gyncentrum is offering excellent services to patients visiting the centre with their infertility issues. The team at Gyncentrum works in association with National Health Fund’s Prenatal Program. Gyncentrum is also one of the implementers of popular IVF related programs under Government Health Program. (3) Gyncentrum is the first fertility centre in Poland and world to introduce and successfully meet pregnancy results with AneVivo Egg Donation. This advanced procedure is a more natural approach towards achieving pregnancy in women. (4)
Success rates: 49% to 60%
Services: IVF, ICSI, Preimplantation Genetic Screening and Diagnosis (PGS and PGD), Endometrial Biopsy, Gynecological Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy, Reproductive Endocrinology.
Timings: Mon to Fri: 7:00 - 21:00; Saturday: 7:00 - 15:00
Location: ul. Zelazna 1 40-851 Katowice (Katowice branch)
Website: https://www.gyncentrum.pl/
Reviews of Gyncentrum
“The team at Gyncentrum is well experienced in handling even complicated infertility cases with expertise of doctors who are trained in performing result oriented infertility treatments. We had a pleasant experience at the centre.” - Antoni Mlynarz
2. InviMed:
InviMed is a fertility center, which aims in creating happy families with the help of modern infertility diagnosis and treatments. The proven medical technologies are efficiently used in the treatments performed at the centre. The first clinic branch of InviMed was started in the year 2001. In the span of 2001 to 2013, InviMed has successfully established four more clinics in total to make sure that patients in different parts of Poland can receive and undergo required medical treatments well on time. The center has also received ISO 9001 certification. It has also received “IVF Clinic Award” in the year 2017 for its excellent IVF related services. InviMed laboratories comprise of doctors, embryologists, biologists, and technicians working efficiently to serve patients with finest quality treatment experience. The embryologists working at different branches of InviMed are pioneers in infertility treatments. The services offered at different branches of InviMed include Infertility assessment, IVF treatment, IUI, Fertility preservation, Fertilized, Aesthetic Oncology, Contraceptive Oncology, IVF procedures with donor eggs and sperm. The centre branches also offer specialized services under the expertise of Psychologist, Dietitian, Psychotherapist, and Acupuncture services to boost success rates of infertility treatments. (5)
Services: IVF, IUI, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, Aesthetic and Contraceptive Oncology, IVF with donor eggs and sperms
Timings: Monday to Friday: 8:00 to 20:00
Location: Rakowiecka 36 02-532, Warsaw (Warsaw branch)
Website: https://www.invimed.pl/o-nas
Reviews of InviMed fertility center
“The staff at Invimed takes proper care of patients getting treated at the centre. Also, the success rates of infertility treatments at InviMed are worth appreciating. Each of the appointments during our IVF procedure with donor eggs proved to be useful for us.” - Jakub Balinski
3. Klinika Bocian:
Klinika Bocian is the fertility centre which aims at serving patients with success oriented infertility treatments since the year of its establishment i.e. 2006. The first centre of Klinika Bocian is located in Bialystok, which is popular as the IVF cradle in Poland. Other centres of Klinika Bocian have started in Warsaw and Katowice as well. The team at Klinika Bocian serves patients with quality infertility treatments. The doctors practicing at Klinika Bocian also contribute to conducting medical journals researches in their field of medical expertise. (6) The success rates of IVF procedures performed at Klinika Bocian are 42%, 67%, and 80% in first, second, and third IVF cycle respectively. (7) The costs of the basic to advanced infertility treatments prove to be affordable for couples visiting the centre. The team working at Klinika Bocian comprises of obstetrics and gynecology specialist as well as embryologists who work as per medical ethics to offer patients with quality treatments. The IVF procedure performed at the centre are made understood about the treatment right from the first IVF consultation.
Services: IVF, IUI, Preimplantation genetic screening and diagnosis (PGS and PGD), Semen Analysis, and Hysteroscopy
Timings: Mon to Fri: 8.00 - 20.00, Saturday: 8.00 - 16.00
Location: Stawki 2A 00-193 Warsaw
Website: https://warszawa.klinikabocian.pl/en
Reviews of Klinika Bocian fertility centre
“Klinika Bocian IVF specialists clarified all our doubts linked with infertility treatments. Finally, we decided to go for IVF treatment to conceive baby. We are thankful to the centre for its smart approach towards our treatment.” - Filip Nowak
4. The Fertility Partnership:
The team at The Fertility Partnership is serving patients with different infertility issues for more than three and half decades now. The Fertility Partnership has over 35+ clinics spread across Poland and UK along with satellite clinics as well. The core values of The Fertility Partnership include care, passion, trust, and innovation. The Fertility Partnership is monitored and regulated by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). The unique feature of “Patient Portal” introduced by The Fertility Partnership helps patients to stay updated with their treatments via this online platform. As per HFEA Act 1990, confidential counseling is carried out with experienced medical professional practicing at The Fertility Partnership. Patients with severe health issues such as cancer are treated as a top priority at the centre. The team at the centre also takes active participation in contributing to different charity organizations. (8)
Services: IVF, IVM, IUI, ICSI treatment, Frozen Embryo Transfer, Preimplantation Genetic Screening and Diagnosis (PGS and PGD), Fertility Preservation, Assisted Hatching, Embryoscope, and Blastocyst Culture.
Timings: NA
Location: Institute of Reproductive Sciences, Oxford Business Park North, Alec Issignois Way, Oxford (Main Centre)
Website: https://www.thefertilitypartnership.com/about-us/why-choose-us/
Reviews of The Fertility Partnership
“The Fertility Partnership team makes healthcare services much accessible for patients who are planning to go for infertility treatments to build families. We are lucky to find this IVF centre for our treatment.” - Aleksander Lis
These are the top IVF centres in Poland, which have established themselves as prime fertility treatment providing centres in the country. The magistrate of Sosnowiec has come with a decision that four fertility clinics in Poland will be associated in the in town In Vitro Program. One of the recent published news has also mentioned that several couples in the country have benefited from this in vitro program. In order to apply for this program, couples need to apply for the program after fulfilling the criteria to participate in this program. (9) You can find more information about different infertility treatments such as IVF, IUI, and associated medications used in the respective treatments on Elawoman blog.
IVF centres in Poland (best IVF doctors in Poland, Gycentrum, InviMed, Klinika Bocian, The Fertility Partnership
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^ Global In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Devices Market - Global New Stribune Globalnewstribune.com, 29 March 2019
^ Infertility Clinic Gyncentrum - Bio News Gyncentrum.pl, 29 March 2019
^ Gyncentrum Clinic - Business Insider Markets.businessinsider.com, 29 March 2019
^ Specialist Center for Diagnosing and Treating Infertility - Invi Med Invimed.pl, 29 March 2019
^ Centres Providing Infertility Treatment in Poland - Klinika Bocian Warszawa.klinikabocian.pl, 29 March 2019
^ High Success Rates in Treating Infertility - Klinika Bocian Warszawa.klinikabocian.pl, 29 March 2019
^ Best Possible Chance of Getting Pregnant - The Fertility Partnership Thefertilitypartnership.com, 29 March 2019
^ The Next Edition of the In-Town Program in Vitro - Slask Slask.onet.pl, 29 March 2019
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Repeated IVF failures - What's Next? What are the common causes and prevention tips?
The common causes of repeated IVF failures include poor endometrium and embryo quality, genetic abnormality, increased age and weight, and abnormal uterine activity. To prevent IVF failure go for blood tests, laparoscopic hysteroscopy, immunoglobulin G consumption are advised to the patients.
What are IVF success rates? What are the factors determining IVF success rates?
The factors which determine success rates of IVF procedures includes maternal age, respective fertility issues, donor eggs, lifestyle, and infertility clinic choice. The IVF success rates vary from 41% - 43% for age of below 35 years and 13% - 18% for age of above 40 years of age.
How much does IVF cost in India? - Economic aspects and Insurance Cover
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IVF cost in India or test tube baby cost depends upon the number of treatments taken. The cost of IVF in India is Rs. 2,50,000 - Rs. 4,00,000 on an average with add on infertility treatments depending on location, expertise of IVF doctor, and success rates at the fertility centre.
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Hospital in Tower Hamlets launches campaign to fight the five top diseases
Adam Barnett
Dr Charles Knight
A hospital has launched a campaign to help residents take action against the country's five deadliest preventable diseases.
The Big Health Pledge, run by BMI The London Independent Hospital in Stepney Green, hopes to raise awareness by encouraging local residents to make a pledge to improve their health.
Residents can complete a health survey online to identify which health pledge they could make.
According to government figures there were 1,454 premature deaths in Tower Hamlets between 2009 and 2011, ranking it at 137th out of 150 local authorities.
In the same period there were 128 cancer deaths out of 100,000 people, and 87 deaths from heart disease and stroke.
35 people died of lung disease and 22 from liver disease.
Dr Charles Knight, a consultant cardiologist at the hospital, said: “The Big Health Pledge will hopefully get people thinking about how they could eat healthier, be more active, quit smoking, drink less alcohol and be more health aware – all steps to a healthier, happier life.”
Kirsty Baker, executive director at the hospital, said: “Our team is supporting this campaign to help people in the local Tower Hamlets community look again at how their lifestyle choices can be affecting their health.”
For more information please visit: bmibighealthpledge.co.uk
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Two is traffic
Chinese carmakers may soon own a fifth of Daimler
BAIC, a state-owned firm, reportedly wants to double its stake to nearly 10%
BusinessDec 18th 2019 edition
BERLIN AND SHANGHAI
AT DAIMLER’S ANNUAL meeting in May, one shareholder captured the mood. “Don’t replace the Mercedes star with a Chinese dragon,” implored Deka Investment, a big asset manager, referring to the purchase in 2018 by Geely, a Chinese firm which also owns Sweden’s Volvo, of a 9.7% stake in the German car giant. Daimler now faces the rise of a second dragon. Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) is reportedly poised to double its holding in Daimler to almost 10%. This would put it ahead of Geely as the firm’s biggest shareholder.
If Geely’s manoeuvre was a surprise, BAIC’s is not. In July the state-owned company grabbed 5% of Daimler. Though the dragon is not yet on the bonnet, it has long been under it: engines, powertrains and other parts that go into Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz cars sold in China are made under two joint ventures with BAIC set up since 2005. With Chinese car sales down in 2018 and 2019 after years of steady increases, domestic manufacturers are banking on premium cars for growth. So is Daimler, whose financial performance has been less inspiring than that of its cars. Its share price has nearly halved since 2015.
For BAIC, the relationship with Daimler is “of existential importance”, says Robin Zhu of Bernstein, a research firm. In 2018 sales from Beijing Benz, one of its ventures, grew by 16% year on year and accounted for 90% of BAIC’s total revenue. Mr Zhu notes that BAIC has long sunks profits from Beijing Benz—a tidy 10bn yuan ($1.5bn) in 2018—into “the bottomless pit” of BAIC’s domestic brands, which lost 6.5bn yuan.
A bigger stake in Daimler may be an attempt to restore the perception that BAIC, not Geely, is the Germans’ main partner. A spokesman for Daimler says it welcomes long-term investors, especially those it knows well. The German firm owns 9.6% of BAIC Motor, the Chinese company’s Hong Kong-listed subsidiary, and 3% of BluePark, another BAIC affiliate that makes electric cars and batteries.
Many Germans nevertheless worry. With another 5% or so the Chinese duo could block some strategic decisions, says Marc Tüngler of DSW, an organisation which represents the interests of German private investors. The pair could easily join forces. Geely may be privately owned but, Mr Zhu says bluntly, “both ultimately represent the Chinese state.”
Geely and BAIC may shun separate holdings above 10% to avoid triggering a review by BaFin, Germany’s financial regulator. But Daimler is apparently already worried that an enlarged Chinese stake may invite scrutiny from an American government body which vets foreign deals, including those between foreign firms with American subsidiaries. Another of Daimler’s Chinese joint ventures, with BYD, a maker of electric cars, may come under strain as Congress tries to bar federal money from paying for Chinese buses, which BYD sells to America. On December 15th China’s ambassador to Germany threatened to retaliate against its car industry if the country bowed to American demands to bar Huawei, a telecoms-equipment giant, from its networks. For Daimler, this requires some deft handling.■
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "Chinese carmakers may soon own a fifth of Daimler"
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The Best of 2006: #3
Night Ripper
If you haven't gone there yet, check out this wikipedia entry on Night Ripper. After that, you'll have a full understanding of what Gregg Gillis has in his record collection. It won't give you much of a sense of the sound, so if you haven't heard the Ripper yet, you'll probably wonder how the hell Pavement, 2 Live Crew and Wings can end up on the same track and be even remotely listenable. You might even say that the album sounds like some kind of bullshit ruse, some clever experiement that shouldn't be examined as music, or as art. On the art tip, you're probably right. Maybe even the music. Maybe Night Ripper, and mash-ups in general, are just another nail in the coffin of decent work in the same way that reality shows are steamrolling documentary filmmaking, or the way commercial news organizations are eradicating ethical journalism.
Maybe. Probably not though: not enough people bought Girl Talk's 3rd album, and like anything, if it ain't profitable, it'll never win a fight. Still, Girl Talk defeated all comers in the fun album of the year, narrowly lost to Scott Walker for most creative, and definitively demolished all but The Simpsons for swampiest arena of pop culture reference. For anyone who ever wanted a team-up between Bell Biv DeVoe, Hum and Kanye West (which should be anyone with taste,) your time has come. Get moving.
-Tucker Stone, 2006
Tucker doesn't like mash-ups, but if you like Hum (and Girl Talk does), you're alright with him. So get out there and pick up Downward is Heavenward and You'd Prefer An Astronaut.
Mash-ups circa 2002 were about context, i.e. if we grafted the vocals from Christina Aguilara’s “Genie In a Bottle” onto the music from The Strokes’ “Hard to Explain,” we changed the meaning of both songs. Essentially, mash-up artists drew parallels between disparate types of music. The trend became a metaphor for the new way of interfacing with music that Napster and iTunes provided. But, in practice, mash-up artistry peaked almost the instant it arrived. With a rudimentary knowledge of pop culture, one could accurately imagine how an entire mash-up would sound upon hearing the first fifteen seconds. The novelty of the actual songs wore off quickly, but the trend created new vocabulary in the language of pop music. Here were songs with instantaneous pleasures that also rewarded knowledge; dumb music for smart people. Yes, Freelance Hellraiser recontextualized both The Strokes and Christina Aguilara with his seminal mash-up “A Stroke of Genius”—but only if you knew each song’s context to begin with.
With Night Ripper, Pittsburgh DJ Greg Gillis AKA Girl Talk, distills the idea of the mash-up—the merging of two otherwise unrelated songs into one track that, ideally, outshines its sources—and makes it listenable by refusing to linger on any one idea long enough for that idea to become predictable. Night Ripper unfolds in a series of left turns, packing Missy Elliott, "Around the Way Girl", Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz, "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover," Panjabi MC, "Hate It Or Love It", Pixies, "White Rabbit", "The Whistle Song," and Neutral fucking Milk Hotel into a single song. Yet even the most genius marriages on Night Ripper—The Notorious B.I.G. rapping over Elton John, say, or “Best of My Love” backing “Kryptonite”—aren’t really the show. One can imagine a dedicated mash-up artist arriving at any of these places eventually, given enough time. But where every mash-up hinges on a single idea, Night Ripper contains multitudes.
Strangely, it all works because Gillis rarely samples genuinely dynamic songs. He chooses his sources for a particular sound (Missy Elliott’s “On and On”) or phrase (Cassady’s “I’m a Hustler”) or rhythm (M.I.A.’s “Galang”). In each case, he reduces the song down to its basest component. One gets the essence of Elastica’s “Connection” from the opening guitar riff, for example; one doesn’t need the entire song. So, while pop knowledge and awareness greatly enhance the enjoyment of Night Ripper, the album doesn’t rely on context to create its effect, the way mash-ups do. In other words, this is still dumb music for smart people, but the learning curve has greatly increased. Girl Talk takes a new and problematic genre and accelerates it to perfection. What could be timelier? It’s a bonus that he solves all of the mash-ups problems by giving us more: more ideas, more parallels between more diverse genres and more eras, more ambition, more fun.
-Marty Brown, 2006
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All vehicles garaged in the City of Fairfax must display a city registration decal. Decals are sold in the Treasurer’s Office in City Hall and expire October 5 each year. Enforcement of the new decal begins November 16.
The Motor Vehicle License Tax (MVLT) is $33 for cars and trucks and $18 for motorcycles. Prices are prorated after April 1. Decals are transferable from 11/15 to 7/31 for $1.00. Decal must be returned to receive the $1 discount
Military personnel living in the city whose legal residence is not Virginia are exempt from paying the fee but should obtain and display a decal.
For information, contact the Treasurer’s Office at 703.385.7900. Citizens may make confidential reports of decal violations on the Decal Violation Hotline at 703.385.7800.
MVLT - Motor Vehicle License Tax - formerly known as Decal Fee. This is a name change only and more accurately reflects language in the City of Fairfax Code (Section 98-65)
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15/03/2000 00-FESCO-A Implementation of Article 11 of the ISD: Categorisation of investors for the purpose of Conduct of Business Rules CESR Archive CESR Document PDF
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09/04/2002 02-020b Stabilisation and Allotment – European Supervisory Approach CESR Archive CESR Document PDF
93.51 KB This paper provides harmonised standards for stabilisation practices in the context of a public offer and an harmonised disclosure regime for the Allotment of securities as well as some basic principles of the Allotment process. This work has not been elaborated under a formal mandate of the EU Commission in the context of the future Directives on Insider Dealing and Market Manipulation or the future Directive on Prospectuses. However, these standards represent an important "acquis" for any future work to be undertaken on the same subject. A summary of the responses to the second consultation (Ref. CESR/02-060) is published in the "Recent Publications".
08/07/2002 02-098b A European Regime of Investor Protection – The Professional and Counterparty Regimes CESR Archive CESR Document PDF
63.43 KB This paper completes the work conducted by CESR on the harmonization of conduct of business rules under the existing Article 11 of the Investment Services Directive. It complements the document (CESR/01-014d) adopted in April 2002 on the so called "retail regime", i.e. the regime applicable to investment services provided to non-professional customers. The paper builds on the proposal for the "Categorisation of investors for the purpose of conduct of business rules". The paper contains: I) core conduct of business rules which should apply to investment services between investment firms and professionals and II) core standards for "counterparty relationships".
08/07/2002 02-086b Standards for Alternative Trading Systems CESR Archive CESR Document PDF
124.16 KB CESR published today common European Standards for Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs). This paper sets outs standards for ATSs in the European Economic Area (EEA) with a view to providing appropriate regulation of investments firms operating ATSs under the current ISD. It builds on FESCO's report to the European Commission on the Regulation of Alternative Trading Systems in Europe, which was published in September 2000. Also published today was a feedback statement summarising the responses received in the final round of consultation (Ref. CESR/02-087b)
08/01/2003 02-287b Feedback Statement on CESR's advice on Level 2 Implementing measures for the proposed Market Abuse Directive CESR Archive CESR Document PDF
245.84 KB CESR publishes today the Feedback Statement to its technical advice, submitted to the European Commission on Tuesday 31st December 2002, on level 2 implementing measures in connection with certain aspects of the Directive on Insider Dealing and Market Manipulation (Market Abuse).
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147.6 KB During the seventh meeting of CESR held in Paris on 21 March 2003, the first CESR standard on Financial Information: Enforcement of standards on financial information in Europe was approved. The standard is being published today along with a feedback statement summarising the responses received during the consultation process (Ref. CESR/03-074). The standard represents a significant part of CESR\'s contribution to the task of developing and implementing a common approach to the enforcement of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. The feedback statement can be viewed under the heading "Recent Publications".
02/04/2003 03-074 Feedback statement on the consultation on the statement of principles on the enforcement of standards of financial information CESR Archive CESR Document PDF
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Policy Responses to New Forms of Work
This report provides a snapshot of the policy actions being taken by OECD, EU and G20 countries in response to growing diversity in forms of employment, with the aim of encouraging peer learning where countries are facing similar issues...
Regulation of the sector of chauffeur-driven cars and taxis (La régulation du secteur des voitures de transport avec chauffeur et des taxis)
Public passenger transport (T3P) includes taxis, chauffeur-driven cars and motor-taxis. In the wake of technological, organizational and legislative developments, this sector has been profoundly disrupted over the last ten years. The...
On-location client-determined moderately skilled work
Work for a brighter future - Global Commission on the future of work
This landmark report by the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work examines how to achieve a better future of work for all at a time of unprecedented change and exceptional challenges in the world of work.
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The digital economy to the test of the collective interest (L’economia digitale alla prova dell’interesse collettivo)
The web can be potentially used as a mean of ‘self-representation’, which makes it increasingly difficult for traditional trade unions to represent workers’ interests. For a long time now, trade unions have been looking for strategies...
Nice new world of work? What an EU response to the platform economy could look like (Schöne neue Arbeitswelt? Wie eine Antwort der EU auf die Plattformoekonomie aussehen konnte)
The digitalisation of the world of work poses social and labour related challengesto the Member States of the European Union (EU). Above all, the service industry is affected: various internet platforms such as Clickworker, Taskrabbit...
Digital labour platforms and the future of work: Towards decent work in the online world
Work on digital platforms provides both opportunities and risks for workers. Risks may include their status of employment, level of income, social protectionand other benefits. To understand why workers undertake this form of work and...
Delningsekonomi: På användarnas villkor (Sharing economy: On user terms)
A special examiner was commissioned to review some issues identified in the development of the new working environment strategy. The purpose of the review was to provide a decision base for possible measures and change of guidelines in...
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We need a new regulatory framework because digital markets are sometimes fundamentally different from traditional markets, raising the question on how to enforce good competition and labour law or high standards of consumer and data...
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International labour markets are recently characterised by rises in 'atypical' work arrangements, such as self-employment (freelance, contract workers, agency workers) and on-call jobs, zero hour-contracts. The drivers of this are...
Ett arbetsliv i förändring – hur påverkas ansvaret för arbetsmiljön? (A working life in change - how is responsibility for the work environment affected?)
A special examiner was commissioned to review some issues identified in the development of the new working environment strategy. The purpose of the review was to provide a decision base for possible measures and change of guide lines in...
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EWA Announces New Class of Reporting Fellows
The Education Writers Association is pleased to announce its seventh class of EWA Reporting Fellows as part of the organization’s ongoing efforts to support enterprising journalism projects.
“We were thrilled to receive many strong proposals for in-depth reporting projects, including from outlets focused on local news,” said Caroline Hendrie, EWA’s executive director. “We are proud of the outstanding coverage that EWA’s fellowship program has supported to date, and we’re confident that this new round will prove equally excellent.”
Nine applications were selected in this round. Each EWA Reporting Fellowship provides up to $8,000 to help cover reporting costs, plus other assistance.
The newest class of EWA Reporting Fellows represents a diverse mix of news outlets. The projects are expected to be published during the 2019-20 academic year.
Meet the Fellows:
The Arizona Republic
A deep dive into charter school regulation nationally, along with an examination of how the controversial EB-5 visa program has allowed foreign nationals to enter the U.S. by investing in charter schools in Arizona and across the country.
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Lori Higgins and Patrick Wall
Chalkbeat
How are students in Detroit and Newark, N.J., navigating life after high school, from postsecondary education to entering the workforce. What lessons can be learned from examining the challenges facing youths in these two cities?
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Amy Kolb Noyes
Vermont Public Radio
A series on innovation in the higher education business model at Vermont’s small colleges, many of which are struggling to stay afloat.
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Mila Koumpilova
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
An exploration of the University of Minnesota’s growing push to make recruiting and fundraising inroads on international student recruiting, and how those efforts jibe with the mission of the state’s flagship public postsecondary institution.
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Kim Kozlowski
A close look at the effectiveness of the Detroit Promise Path, which aims to offer a way for more students to afford college as well as improve completion rates.
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Liana Loewus and Sarah Schwartz
Marking the 20th anniversary of the National Reading Panel’s landmark report on reading instruction, an examination of the current instructional landscape, findings from recent research, and approaches to reading instruction being taught to would-be classroom teachers in education schools.
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Cory McCoy
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, Texas)
A series on the results of Tyler Junior College’s Rusk Promise program: It is the first such program in Texas, and among the first in the nation, to have graduated students.
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Kate McGee
WBEZ (Chicago)
An examination of the developmental education program at Chicago’s City Colleges system and how well it’s helping students compared with other programs across the country.
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Mandy McLaren
Courier Journal (Louisville)
Why is Louisville’s population of disconnected youth — ages 16 to 24 — on the rise, and what are the consequences for the community?
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Nowadays, the latest catch-phrase usually resembles "we need to get to the cloud". Most agencies lack a cohesive and well thought out approach to Modernization of Traditional Applications into a Cloud Infrastructure. Our answer? Docker Containers.
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Ty Burrell is America’s Dad and America Should Be Fine With That
From a houseboat in Tahoe, the 'Modern Family' star answers our probing questions.
By Joshua David Stein
Fatherly Questionnaire
As the pater familias in Modern Family, by all accounts one of the most successful and influential sitcoms currently on air, Ty Burrell has spent the last nine years guilelessly but undeniably stepping into the role of national dad. Depending on your politics, you might argue that he shared the gig with Barack Obama for a while. But now it’s just him and his alter ego Phil Dunphy, a flawed but lovable guy trying his best to keep his kids and his double-takingly beautiful wife happy and sane. And, yes, Dunphy is a sitcom archetype, but he works because Burrell owns it. The performance, which doesn’t even feel like a performance anymore, is preposterous, lived-in, and deeply genuine. Ty Burrell isn’t Phil Dunphy, but they are both real.
“The thing I get the most is, ‘You’re not going to believe me, but people tell me I’m like Phil!'” says Burrell, whose voice is cracking from screaming his way through a day filming a jet pack scene at Lake Tahoe. He gets that. He’s willing to have that same conversation a lot of times because he’s been there. “I have experienced so many failures at home on just one day as a parent,” he laughs. “It’s impossible to pretend everything’s going great when somebody’s throwing potatoes at your face.”
However, and this warrants attention, Burrell is actually very cool. He is, among other things, a movie star. He also owns two bars and a restaurant in Utah, where he and his family live. “It’s all very Big Love,” he says, which is a polite deflection. It’s more Entourage, but actually cool and not obnoxious. Bar X, a restored cocktail lounge from 1933, and Beer Bar, a beer bar, are in Salt Lake while a diner, the Eating Establishment, is in Park City. These are cool places to go–in so much as that’s a thing in Utah. And Burrell has side hustles on the side of his side hustles. Inspired by his own father, a social worker who worked with foster children, Burrell is carrying on his legacy with KITS, a non-profit program which empowers foster children through film making. So, yeah, Burell is who you want him to be even if he isn’t Dunphy.
Burrell took the Fatherly Questionnaire on set.
Ty Burrell.
Actor. Idiot. I prefer ‘Professional Idiot.’
Age?
How old are your children?
7 and 5.
What are their names?
Frances is 7; Greta is 5.
Ty Burrell and his wife Holly
Are they named after anyone in particular?
No. It is a Danish name and my wife has Danish heritage.
Do you have any cute nicknames for your children?
Frances’s nickname is Frankie. Greta’s middle name is Germa ,which is my wife’s maiden name so she gets called GG a lot. They’re pretty cool nicknames. It was an accident but we still pat ourselves on the back.
What do they call you?
They call me Daddy. They occasionally call me Ty, which cracks me up. They call me “Phil Dunphy” when they want to get a laugh out of me. If they want something, I can tell if they’re being manipulative because they called me Papa, like I’m in a Russian novel. I will never tell them how obvious they are being.
How often do you see them?
I’m lucky. I get to see them everyday. I don’t often get to see them in the morning because I go to work really early, usually about 6 am. We have dinner together every night. We’re very traditional in that way. My wife and I were both raised in households where you sat down at dinner every night. It is a wonderful rhythm of the day thing.
Describe yourself as a father in three words.
Well intended dope.
Describe your father in three words.
Well intended dope. No, I’m kidding. Kind, sensitive, and hilarious.
What are your weaknesses as a father? Relatedly, what is your biggest regret as a father?
Oh my gosh. My biggest weakness as a father is allowing my daughters to have tantrums. When I grew up, tantrums weren’t allowed and I sometimes feel like I need to let them get it out of their system. On the other hand, I have a lot of German in me. Sometimes I can be like, “We don’t shout. No shouting.” There’s probably a happy medium but I’ve never found it.
What’s your favorite activity to do with your children that is your special father kid thing?
Fly-fishing. We’ve been a few times since there’s great fishing in Utah. I expected I would be selling my daughters on it but, my God, they flip out over it. To be honest, we usually catch and release but the girls are excited about eating the fish too. They’re just like “I want to kill it.” “No, I want to kill it.”
What has been the moment you have been most proud of as a parent and why?
I”m really proud of the time we take every nigh to cook together. Our youngest daughter, in particular, participates. It does take a little bit of effort and does feel incredibly satisfying to sit around the table and talk about the day over food that we all made.
What heirloom did your father give to you, if any?
The most important things my father left to me, and to all of his kids, were his paintings. He was a very talented artist who turned down a full scholarship to UCLA in the fine arts for family reasons up in Oregon. He never really scratched that itch professionally so his painting at home on his days off were very important to him. Now they’re important to us.
What heirloom do you want to leave for your children, if anything?
I can’t really think of anything physical that I’d single out to leave my girls. The memory of laughter are my best memories of my dad so, hopefully, they’ll have lots of those. Many of them at my expense, I’m sure.
Describe the “Dad Special” for dinner?
Dad special is whole chicken on the grill. Its pretty boring but the girls dig into the legs like they’ve been on a desert island for years.
Are you religious and are you raising your children in that tradition?
I’m not religious but I have a great deal of respect for religion. My father’s family was a very non-literal Christian Science clan and it was a lovely positive experience without the fundamentalism that can accompany any religion. We attend a Unitarian church very occasionally but, honestly, I wish we went more. I always find it to be meaningful and valuable. Hopefully the girls will have enough experience with religion to make up their own minds.
What’s is a mistake you made growing up that you want to ensure your child does not repeat?
I’d like for my kids to understand that their instincts are who they are and who they are is enough. It’s something I didn’t understand until adulthood and still forget occasionally.…
Aside from saying it, how do you make sure you kid knows you love him or her?
Hopefully just be being present and compassionate. We’ll see how I did based on my kid’s memoirs in 30 years.
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All Charged Up! An E-revolution is Upon Us
When a need is felt by a nation, that's when a revolution begins to take over
Sanil Sachar
Entrepreneur, National Best-Selling Author & Angel Investor, Co-founder - Huddle, Co-owner - Trusox
June 14, 2019 4 min read
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With the ever-rising population, increasing commute, and faster-paced lives, travelling long and short distances are more important now than it ever was. This increasing demand, supply and the environmental damage it causes is a key reason we are now amidst the Electric Vehicles (EV) revolution.
Both public and private players are racing towards a smarter and cleaner future.
But Where do we Begin?
3,800 start-ups/companies in the EV space worldwide and India constitutes less than 10per cent of this population with a significant rise over time, as two-thirds of these have originated since 2014.
Therefore, the EV adoption isn’t a trend that will have a shelf-life; rather it is a lifestyle change that is here to stay.
74.6per cent of Indian energy consumptions depends on fossil fuels. The recently signed Paris climate treaty will result in 40 per cent reduction of installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuels by 2030. This agreement is a green light from India towards a greener environment.
1per cent of total sales of vehicles are EV, which is scheduled to rise with to the aim of 30per cent by 2030. Our governments plan towards investing 1,000 crores towards charging infrastructure is a propeller to private players looking to solve for the conversion towards electric.
Factors like these being witnessed in India showcase increasing adoption with the help of public and private partnerships.
What we Should be Mindful of –
Despite the adoption of EVs diminishing the usage of fossil fuels, India doesn’t have the luxury of surplus power, which could lead to dependency on other regions to find a solution.
Moreover, the EV sector is going to be accountable for creating 10 million jobs but we’re yet to establish where these qualifications will be granted from. Support provided by institutions like the IITs and Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship showcase promise in there being enough talent emerging at the rate needed to cope with the growth.
Four Sub-sectors Acting as the Starting Point –
Battery Level Innovations
Innovations at the core of the battery, and areas impacting its performance are key elements that will significantly improve the adoption. This is primarily to overcome range anxiety. Improved performance will directly lead to increased operational feasibility.
As batteries improve over time, battery management systems (BMS) will play a vital role in understanding consumption patterns tracking usage and behaviour.
In order to achieve the estimated high growth rate of EV adoption, innovative models of battery swapping will assist this rise. Followed by increasing infrastructure being set up. The government’s plan to add 2,700 charging stations across the country as part of FAME II, is an added assistance.
Low-Cost Manufacturing
Cost of manufacturing and setup are primary considerations for adoption and increased productivity. In order to improve unit economics, a core value chain needs to be constructed, providing test beds for ventures to pilot their innovations in a controlled environment.
Data-driven Solutions
This can be seen through SaaS-based models to enable increased productivity of the vehicle, which can be leveraged through IoT enabled solutions entrenched in both product and service level layers.
Adopters and Who Will Hit the Ground Running –
The two major food delivery companies in India constitute around 4 lac scooters. If we consider logistics and hyperlocal ventures, the universe of adopters becomes increasingly lucrative.
Partnerships between the likes of Sun Mobility and Ashok Leyland coming together, and the electric mobility service venture SmartE, partnering with Mahindra Electric to include 10,000 of Mahindra’s electric three-wheelers across its operations in India by 2020, showcases a trend towards teamwork between start-ups and larger organizations.
For the largest market of two-wheelers, with 19 million on the road, adoption towards electric will provide a reduction of 75-85per cent in maintaining the vehicle.
Public transport will follow suit, with the central government inviting bids to deploy 5,000 electric buses with grants up to 40per cent on cost.
To Conclude Before we Add on -
There are some fundamental truths but no direct right or wrong on the way forward. Aligning our strengths into enabling a full-stack solution is the need of the hour!
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Recession, robots and rockets: another roaring 20s for world markets?
Business Reuters Dec 28, 2019 05:06:18 IST
By Tom Arnold and Elizabeth Howcroft
LONDON (Reuters) - Helicopter cash, climate crises, smart cities and the space economy -- investors have all those possibilities ahead as they enter the third decade of the 21st century.
They go into the new decade with a spring in their step, after watching world stocks add over $25 trillion in value in the past 10 years and a bond rally put $13 trillion worth of bond yields below zero.
They also saw internet-based firms transform the way humans work, shop and relax. Now investors are positioning for the tech revolution's next 10 years.
Could we see a repeat of the roaring twenties, as the 1920s were known -- years of prosperity, technological innovation and such social developments as women winning the right to vote?
Possibly. But there's unease, along with all the euphoria. The current economic cycle is already the longest in U.S. history and a recession looks inevitable in the new decade -- which also will mark 100 years since the Wall Street crash of 1929.
U.S. economic growth https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/13/258/258/ecogrowth.png
And solutions may need to be unconventional, even more so than the extraordinary policies of negative interest rates and bond-buying that eased the post-2008 global funk.
With those policies maxed out, "in the 2020s it seems inevitable that a world of helicopter money awaits," Deutsche Bank predicts.
That would entail central banks or governments providing citizens with large amounts of money, as though it was being dropped from helicopters, a strategy rejected even by the unorthodox policymakers of the 2010s.
Another radical option under discussion is modern monetary theory, when governments create and spend as much money as needed, so long as inflation stays low.
"Central banks have effectively invited governments to experiment with more unconventional policies," Deutsche said. However, those policies may pile up even more global debt, already at record highs.
On the rise: U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/13/257/257/debttogdp.png
So what will markets do?
A decade of rock-bottom interest rates didn't revive growth and inflation in developed nations, but they certainly inflated markets, as prices for bonds, equities and real estate show.
The inequality they spawned have also triggered a widespread backlash against globalisation. The result is a de-globalising world, or as Morgan Stanley puts it, "slow-balisation".
The bank expects tech investments to outperform, in particular smaller internet firms in China, as protectionism hurts larger rivals.
But it predicts less exciting returns -- "a lower and flatter frontier compared to prior decades, and especially compared to the ten years post-GFC (global financial crisis)."
GLOBAL WARMING, PEOPLE AGEING
As market returns cool, the planet will continue to heat up. Carbon emissions, temperatures, sea levels and thus climate-induced poverty and immigration are expected to rise.
That should increasingly lead asset managers to seek alternatives to pollutants, especially coal, use of which must cease in OECD nations by 2030 for the Paris Agreement to be met.
BofA expects clean energy and electric-vehicle companies to emerge as winners, estimating the clean energy market to be already worth $300 billion.
Ageing populations are another challenge, making demographics a key investment criterion. Deutsche Bank names Ireland, Rwanda, Ghana, Botswana and Laos as among the 22 nations in line for a "demographic dividend", benefiting from growing working-age populations.
It also backed sectors like e-commerce as Generation Z, those who will be in their mid 20s to early 30s by 2030, exercise growing spending power.
Growing old too fast: China’s workforce must support a larger population of elderly dependents https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/breakingviews/1/1053/1418/China%20demographics.png
But in some countries, affluent older spenders will still carry clout. By 2030, over 80s will represent 5.4% of the U.S. population, up from 3.7% in 2015, driving demand for retirement homes, healthcare and long-life innovations.
"Immortality may prove the most interesting secular theme in the 2020s," BofA predicts.
TECH TIPPING POINTS
A World Economic Forum survey in 2017 predicted a series of "technological tipping points" for the coming decade. They included 3D-printed cars, driverless vehicles and the first artificial-intelligence machine on a company's board.
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The '20s could be an era of smart cities, where big data and robotics ensure better governance, health and connectivity, UBS forecast. It expects annual spending to turn cities smart will reach $2 trillion in 2025 and internet-connected devices will multiply more than four-fold to 46 billion.
To take advantage of these shifts, investors will focus on areas such as autonomous vehicles -- automated forklift shipments will grow to 455,000 in 2030 from 4,000 next year, ABI Research said.
Finally, advances in rocket and satellite technology are opening investment access to the final frontier. The first exchange-traded fund dedicated to the space industry opened in 2019.
UBS sees "parallels with how the global internet ... opened up vast opportunities at the turn of the century." It predicts the "space economy" will reach $1 trillion in the next couple of decades, from $340 billion now.
The bank backs existing listed aerospace, satellite and communications companies and new space start-ups in private markets.
(Reporting by Tom Arnold and Elizabeth Howcroft; editing by Sujata Rao)
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Updated Date: Dec 28, 2019 05:06:18 IST
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Connecticut Supreme Court Ruling Opens Troublesome Door
Posted By FFL Dealer Network on 04/16/2019 in Firearm News
When the door opened for parents of a school shooting to sue Remington, the Connecticut Supreme Court took a different tack on the decision.
This case now hinges on advertising. The plaintiffs in Soto v. Bushmaster claim Remington ran ads promoting the rifle used in the shooting as a weapon of mass destruction. One campaign, in particular, is discussed. See an archived version of the ad here.
The judges say a court must decide if Remington advertised the rifle in a way that encouraged illegal use of the firearm.
“We further conclude that Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) does not bar the plaintiffs from proceeding on the single, limited theory that the defendants violated CUTPA by marketing the XM15- E2S to civilians for criminal purposes, and that those wrongful marketing tactics caused or contributed to the Sandy Hook massacre,” Judge Richard Palmer wrote in the majority decision. "Accordingly, on the basis of that limited theory, we conclude that the plaintiffs have pleaded allegations sufficient to survive a motion to strike and are entitled to have the opportunity to prove their wrongful marketing allegations."
CUPTA is the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. It "allows the Commissioner of Consumer Protection to legally pursue persons or businesses who have used unfair or deceptive trade practices with consumers. It grants the court the discretion to award punitive damages, costs, and reasonable attorney’s fees, as well as other relief such as an injunction, which the court determines."
A DIFFERENT WAY
The plaintiffs had to look for a different way to sue Remington, other than product liability or such because of the PLCAA. The official summary of the PLCAA says, "The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) is a United States law which protects firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes have been committed with their products. However, both manufacturers and dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct, and other actions for which they are directly responsible in much the same manner that any U.S.-based manufacturer of consumer products is held responsible. They may also be held liable for negligent entrustment when they have reason to know a gun is intended for use in a crime."
The PLCAA, which actually had the support of Bernie Sanders, is meant to protect firearms makers. As David French says in the National Review, "The act is designed to reinforce traditional product-liability law and to protect gun rights from activist judges. After all, no one thinks that Ford should be held liable if a terrorist drives an F-250 into a crowd. Yet there are activists who believe that, say, Ruger should be held liable if a bank robber uses an SR9 to commit a robbery."
The Connecticut court agrees, partly. "There is no doubt that congressional supporters of PLCAA were committed to Americans’ second amendment freedoms and sought to secure those freedoms by immunizing firearms companies from frivolous lawsuits. It is not at all clear, however, that the second amendment’s protections even extend to the types of quasi-military, semiautomatic assault rifles at issue in the present case," says the ruling.
A SPLIT COURT
The Connecticut Supreme Court, which is led by Democrats, was split 4-3 on the decision to hand the case back to a lower court. Justices Richard N. Palmer, Andrew J. McDonald, Raheem L. Mullins and Maria Araujo Kahn sided with the majority. Judges Richard A. Robinson, Christine S. Vertefeuille and Nina F. Elgo voted no.
AN OPEN DOOR
Many in the firearms industry are saying this is now an open door to more lawsuits against gun makers. The Connecticut Supreme Court calls that idea "absurd." The court's argument here is the absurd part. It says in part, "… the plaintiffs’ wrongful marketing claims may proceed without crippling PLCAA, as those claims allege only that one specific family of firearms sellers advertised one particular assault weapon in an uniquely unscrupulous manner, promoting its suitability for illegal, offensive assaults."
What's absurd here is the Connecticut High Court's refusal to accept reality. More lawsuits are on the way, regardless of the outcome of this case.
Why? The court's decision, in this case, is not based on law, but opinion. Those suing Remington claim the gun maker "… marketed and promoted the XM15-E2S in an unethical, oppressive, immoral, and unscrupulous manner," according to the court. The court does not define what "unethical, oppressive, immoral, and unscrupulous" mean; that is something the lower court must decide.
So, more people are going to sue to try to get those four descriptions to cover any and all firearms advertising.
The Connecticut court decision in Soto v. Bushmaster hinges partly on the "intended for use in a crime" phrase from the PLCAA summary. The parents suing Remington claim the gun maker advertised the gun to criminals so they could use it to commit crimes.
Read the entire decision here. It is 71 pages long.
The lawsuit is a result of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. Parents claim Remington, which made the Bushmaster AR 15 rifles, must share some of the responsibility for the carnage.
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Markit, the world's first integrated daily pricing service for global credit derivatives, cash credit instruments and syndicated loans, today announced the appointment of Richard Earl and Ben Logan as vice presidents within the company's international product development and sales team.
Richard Earl, who will be London-based, will help drive the firm's penetration of the European client base, with a particular focus on Markit's credit products. He was previously at Principia Partners, a specialist structured credit and derivatives software supplier, where he was responsible for sales to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to this role, Richard spent five years at JPMorgan, selling credit products to the Middle East.
Ben Logan will spearhead product development for Markit in New York, focusing on the ABS and CDO markets. He will take a leading role in managing the company's relationships with the broker-dealer community across its existing product lines. Ben joins from Loan Pricing Corporation, where he was responsible for generating new data and analytical offerings for the credit markets.
Lance Uggla, chief executive of Markit comments: "Richard and Ben bring with them strong track records and extensive knowledge of the credit arena. Their expertise will considerably strengthen our team and best position us to meet ever increasing client demand."
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West End boys, Gaston girls earn hoops wins
By Teddy CouchTimes Staff Writer
West End earned a 63-60 road victory over Etowah County rival Gaston in boys high school basketball Tuesday, but it didn’t come easy.
The Patriots (2-4) were down 10 points through three quarters, then used a 16-4 run capped off by a mid-range jumper by Jacob Crosby with 3:58 left to take a 54-52 advantage. It was West End’s first lead since leading 3-2 very early in the game.
The Bulldogs (0-3) regained a four-point lead on a 6-0 run, with all of those points coming at the charity stripe with 1:52 left.
West End then answered back with six points on its own behind Gaston turnovers. Jeremiah Roberson’s layup in transition after a steal put the Patriots up 60-58 with 1:04 left.
Nick Lewis was fouled for Gaston on its ensuing possession and he sunk two layups to tie the game up at 60 with 58 seconds left.
Following a timeout, Eli Pearce got the ball off the inbound pass, then drove after a pick-and-roll set by Mason Barnett. Pearce got to the basket after the screen and hit Barnett with a pass for the easy layup with 40 seconds left for what ended up being the game-winning basket. West End outscored Gaston 25-12 in the fourth quarter.
“I saw them both jump on me so he (Barnett) was wide-open so I passed it to him,” Pearce said.
The play went as West End coach Clint Brannon drew it up.
“We called a pick-and-roll for Eli and Mason and put our shooter (Roberson) in the corner so that way we have three opportunities to score,” Brannon said. “They executed it beautifully.”
Gaston held a double-digit lead after each of the first three quarters. The Bulldogs were up 21-10 through one quarter, 33-23 at the half and 48-38 heading into the final period.
“They just kept chipping away,” Gaston coach Jesse Chandler said. “When they started pressing, it frazzled us and forced some turnovers. They were able to score on that.”
Roberson led the Patriots with 14 points. Crosby scored 12 points and Pearce added 11 points. Jacob Camacho contributed nine points.
Garrison Hunt paced the Bulldogs with 23 points with 12 coming in the first quarter. Lewis added 12 points.
Gaston 51, West End 42
The Bulldogs jumped out to a big lead, then had to hold off the Patriots to earn their first win of the season 51-42 Tuesday.
West End (0-6) scored the first basket of the game on a layup by Kayley Dobbins. Alyssa Gargus then answered with a 3-pointer and Gaston (1-2) held the lead the remainder of the way.
The Bulldogs led 10-4 after the opening quarter, 23-11 at halftime and 35-19 after the third. The Patriots didn’t go down without making two second-half runs, though.
West End scored the first six points to cut its deficit to 23-17 before Gaston closed the third quarter on a 12-2 run.
The Patriots then trimmed the Bulldogs’ lead to six points on a few different occasions in the final period. The last time came following a 3-pointer by Jayleigh Kirby at the 2:46 mark. It took Gaston just seven seconds to answer on a Kaytlin Thrasher layup and the Bulldogs led by at least nine the rest of the way.
"We just tried to keep the tempo up with our defense," Gaston coach Brittany Brewer said. "We just focused on defense all game."
Sidney Oliver led Gaston with 14 points. Thrasher added 13 points. Alex Moon scored nine points while Gargus added seven points.
Madison Parker had a game-high 19 points for the Patriots. Dobbins added 12 points.
West End travels to Saint Bernard on Thursday while Gaston visits Coosa Christian.
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Home MAGAZINE STORIES JOSEPH TISIGA "The Magic Show," May 19 to June 10, 2011, The ODD Gallery, Dawson City
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JOSEPH TISIGA "The Magic Show," May 19 to June 10, 2011, The ODD Gallery, Dawson City
"The White Shaman and his Stupefying Flying Red Chief"
Joseph Tisiga, "The White Shaman and his Stupefying Flying Red Chief," watercolour on paper, 2011, 22” X 30”.
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The Magic Show, May 19 to June 10, 2011, The ODD Gallery, Dawson City
BY: Nicole Bauberger
In an art world where anything is possible, the artist must create his own context. Joseph Tisiga imagines all of his artwork as the product of his fictional Indian Brand Corporation, also known as IBC. This spring, the Corporation will produce a show of watercolour and oil paintings exploring magic shows and persuasive illusions in Dawson City, Yukon.
Tisiga’s paintings are illustrative, narrative and dream-like. They often incorporate hand-written text and then watercolour washes using greys and browns, reminiscent of the fanciful work of Marcel Dzama. Tisiga adds Shary Boyle and Howie Tsui’s names to the list of young artists who work in this mode, creating narrative, illustrative, and psychologically driven paintings.
Tisiga signs his paintings J. Ciga, the traditional spelling of his last name. J. Ciga is a character, “the prop builder and janitor” for IBC, and a kind of avatar. Tisiga explains that the characters in IBC allow him to access different parts of himself. He sees Joseph Tisiga as a thinker who spends a lot of time reading and analyzing images, society and identity. The use of the J. Ciga persona frees the artist from the pressure to get all those thoughts into every piece. “This way I’m allowed to just make artifacts,” he says.
In The Magic Show, Tisiga will explore two other members of IBC: the Red Chief, and the White Shaman, in paintings that develop each of them as characters, and exploring their interdependence. In the watercolour The White Shaman and his Stupefying Flying Red Chief, the White Shaman saws into a box with ladies’ feet out both ends, while the Red Chief flies from visible lines above him, loose-limbed and puppet-like. Words are worked into the elaborately patterned red wallpaper: “Behold an incredible sight,” and totem poles sporting the words AMAZING and SUPERB flank the stage.
The Red Chief often wears a top hat with a feather in it, and the White Shaman has recognizably solid-looking hair from painting to painting, but they metamorphose. In one watercolour, the White Shaman stands in a 1960s-style living room. He suspends a glowing light bulb in midair, smoking a cigarette with the other hand. The Red Chief is represented by Tisiga’s mother as a child, sitting in that living room with her adoptive white family.
Magic and illusion fascinate Tisiga, including the illusion that corporations are willed into existence and given many of the rights of people. Tisiga shakes his head at this insane act of imagination, then borrows it and spoofs it. Many of the other realities of society, including the transactional illusion of the economy, seem to him similar magic tricks.
He’s come to see identity politics as a kind of trick as well. “It’s something we believe in,” he says. “We can’t really see the strings.” In previous paintings, Tisiga has appropriated cultural icons such as Curious George and Jughead to explore issues of colonialism. He walks very lightly over dangerous ground. His sense of play breathes an imaginative life into issues that often freeze into paralyzed seriousness.
Tisiga carries his ‘Indian license’ — he’s a member of the Kaska Dene First Nation — but he doesn’t identify specifically with his Kaska heritage as an artist. Based in Whitehorse, he feels he belongs to a global indigenous community.
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Completing All the Records in the Resident Evil 2 Remake, Part Two
You're not quite done with the Resident Evil 2 remake yet. There are still a few Records to set before you're a Raccoon City Native.
by Thomas Wilde
Like Resident Evil: Revelations 2 before it, the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake has its own built-in set of quasi-achievements, which it calls Records. There are 87 of them in total, many of which are locked or unexplained when you first start the game.
When you complete a Record, the game doesn’t fully track it until the next time you open the Records screen, available from the pause menu in-game, or under Bonuses in the main menu.
Most of the Records in the game, when achieved, unlock entries in the Gallery, such as concept art (see below) or character models. A handful also unlock bonus weapons, character costumes, and extra gameplay modes.
You don't officially complete a Record until you open the Records screen or finish a scenario, at which point the game pops up a notification and gives you any rewards that might be attached to the Record. This does work retroactively; for example, if you complete a Record that awards a bonus weapon, you can reload old saves and the new weapon will suddenly be available in the nearest item box.
Finishing the 86 other Records in the game unlocks the last one, Raccoon City Native, which is also the Platinum Trophy on the PlayStation 4 version.
Records that are also trophies or achievements are marked with an asterisk(*).
Read Part 1 of this Records guide for story mode, gameplay, and rank Records.
Combat Records
Notably, all combat-focused Records can be accomplished as easily in the Survivor bonus modes as in the main game. Some are even a little easier; for example, Flan can get Human Power Plant very easily, despite not being human.
Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Gun*
Kill any enemy with a knife. This is probably easiest to do by stabbing a downed zombie, but there are a couple of enemies who are surprisingly easy to take down with a good stabbing frenzy, most notably Lickers.
Eat This!*
Counterattack when grabbed with a grenade or knife.
Handy with a Handgun
Kill 10 enemies with a handgun.
Matter of Splatter
Kill 10 enemies with a shotgun.
You Die… Over There!
Kill 5 enemies with the grenade launcher.
Kill 10 enemies with a submachine gun.
This is easiest to do with weaker enemies like dogs or the little G-Spawns that the sewer mutants will throw at you. The SMG, under ordinary circumstances, is a lot better at dismemberment than raw damage.
Human Power Plant
Kill 5 enemies with the Spark Shot. This is found in the Sewer Storage Room in Claire’s campaign, and it comes standard in Flan's loadout when you play Tofu Survivor.
Bring Marshmallows!
Kill 5 enemies with the Chemical Flamethrower. This is found in the Sewer Storage Room in Leon’s campaign.
Got a Problem, Punk?
Kill 5 enemies with a Magnum.
Master Tactician
Kill 10 enemies with grenades and/or knives.
Two Birds, One Stone
Kill two enemies at once with a single bullet or shotgun blast. The “bullet” in question will likely be Leon’s Magnum, as it can penetrate through multiple targets.
This is probably easiest to do in The 4th Survivor bonus mode, especially in zombie-choked areas like the secret area behind the Workers’ Break Room.
A Shocking End
Hit an enemy with the Spark Shot and keep aiming at it until the needles overload. It takes a few seconds, but it’s also a really good way to deal with the big G-mutants in the sewers.
After landing a successful counterattack on a dog, zombie, or Licker with a frag or flash grenade, it ends up lodged in the enemy’s mouth. If you simply wait, it’ll go off on its own for minimal effect. However, you can manually detonate it by shooting it, which causes a bigger explosion and accomplishes this Record.
Zombie Roundup*
Kill at least three zombies with a single frag grenade. I’ve found this is easiest to do on the stairs leading down to the waterway from the Treatment Control Room, as you can pitch a frag grenade down the steps and, with a little luck, kill the two zombies waiting there, plus the “sleeping” zombie nearby.
Another good option is right after the final boss fight in Leon's scenario. When the lift reaches the bottom of the complex, four zombies will burst through a door at you, all of which have very low health. If you have even one frag grenade on you, this Record's a cinch.
But A Torso
Shoot off a single zombie’s arms and legs. You can still get this Record by brutalizing a zombie that’s already dead, so it can be accomplished easily on any difficulty.
A Doff of the Cap
Shoot a hat off of five zombies’ heads. This can include policeman’s caps, which means you’ll probably get this by accident before you’ve left the RPD. If not, the sewer zombies who are still wearing hard hats will get you the rest of the way there.
Like Skeet Shooting*
Shoot a dog or Licker out of the air as it leaps at you.
This is one of those achievements that’s easy to do by accident, but trying to do it on purpose will just frustrate you, like parrying arrows with your knife in RE5. I got it in 4th Survivor by trying to kill the dog pack in the Flow Control Room with Hunk’s MP5.
Keep Their Heads Ringin’*
Drop a flash grenade on an unaware Licker. Do not get anywhere near it afterward, as it lashes out in random directions for a few seconds while it’s deaf.
Hats Off!*
Knock off Mr. X’s fedora with a successful headshot. You can do this with any weapon, but be aware that it usually gets him angry.
Take a Breather
If you manage to land several consecutive headshots on Mr. X or blow him up with a frag grenade, he drops to one knee and is stunned for about 40 seconds. This usually isn’t worth the ammo, but you can take advantage of it for this Record and an opportunity to get some distance.
Hate to Burst Your Bulb
Ivy zombies have a number of lighter-colored green bulbs on their bodies. Shooting those bulbs makes them explode, stunning the Ivy for a second. If you pop them all, the Ivy drops to the floor.
This requires precise aiming, ideally with a handgun with a laser sight like the one Claire finds in the RPD’s parking garage, and it is easiest to do on Assisted difficulty.
It’s low-key one of the trickier records in the game, however, as it requires you to only hit the bulbs.
Right in the Eyeball
During your first fight against the G-Type, in the maintenance room, use a knife to hit the giant eyeball on his arm.
If he manages to grab you and you break free by counterattacking with a knife, it counts for this record.
Gotcha!*
Inflict enough damage on the G-Type during your second fight with it, at the end of the sewers section, that a single hit from the crane is enough to end the encounter.
This is tricky, particularly on Standard or higher difficulty. What can help is that any damage you inflict on the G during the run-up to the crane platform does still count toward its total health pool, so you can shoot its arm in the power room, drop a grenade in its face when it tears the door open, and put a round or two in it while you're running from it.
Put that Down!
During your fight with the G-Type in the bioreactor room, he occasionally breaks off to pick up and throw fuel canisters at you. Doing so exposes an eyeball between his shoulder blades.
If you target and destroy it while he’s holding the canister, he’ll drop it and become stunned, which also completes this record.
You Belong on the Ground
In Claire’s final fight against the G-Type, when he runs off to cling to the wall of the elevator shaft, shoot him down with the minigun before he can leap at you.
In Leon’s fight against the Super Tyrant, it has a move where it pauses and spreads its arms, which is the tell that it’s setting up for its instant-kill charge attack. Keep it from charging by shooting it in the heart on its chest with a couple of rounds from any weapon.
With Time to Spare*
As Claire, defeat the final G mutation with four minutes or more left on the self-destruct countdown.
The trick is that the G only really takes damage when you hit his eyes, so simply hosing lead into him with the minigun doesn’t do much. Focus your attacks on the cluster of eyes in his center, and don’t shoot at all unless you have a clear line of fire on them.
If he’s been reduced to crawling along the floor at you, you’ve officially won the fight; he’ll expire on his own after about 30 seconds. This is mostly about maximizing your damage while you have the opportunity, rather than randomly blazing away at him.
In the Blink of an Eye*
As Leon, defeat the Super Tyrant with five minutes or more left on the self-destruct countdown.
The Super Tyrant is actually a timed encounter. If you’re still alive after three minutes and thirty seconds, Ada automatically throws you the rocket launcher, one shot from which ends the fight. Any damage you inflict on the Tyrant in the meantime takes time off that clock, but in surprisingly small increments.
At best, you’re probably always going to be stuck fighting the Super Tyrant for at least 90 seconds.
With that in mind, getting this record is mostly about how fast you navigate the section leading up to it. Leon doesn’t have to wait for Sherry, so he has a slight speed advantage here, but knowing the map and avoiding what fights you can make a big difference.
The Super Tyrant can also be stunned with flash and frag grenades, and you can manipulate it to only use its easy-to-dodge leap attack by constantly staying as far away as possible.
Alternatively, if you manage to get an S+ rank on Hardcore difficulty as Leon and unlock the infinite rocket launcher, one shot from it will automatically destroy the Super Tyrant as soon as the fight starts.
Collectibles Records
Vermin Extermination*
Destroy a Mr. Raccoon statue.
Destroy 10 Mr. Raccoons.
Complete Vermin Extermination*
Destroy all 15 Mr. Raccoons.
We’ve actually got a well-written and thoughtful guide specifically for Mr. Raccoon statues. I think you should use that.
Treasure Hunter*
Develop the “Hiding Places” film in the Workroom in the sewers, as discussed in yet another handy guide on this site, and use it to find two hidden item stashes in the RPD.
Hip to Add Squares*
Find a Hip Pouch.
A Waist of Space*
Find all the Hip Pouches in the game and max out your inventory.
This Record is only possible on Assisted or Standard difficulties, as the easier-to-find Hip Pouches are replaced by ink ribbons in Hardcore mode.
Hip Pouches can always be found in locker 203 in the RPD’s Secure Storage Room; inside the safe under the captain’s desk in the RPD’s West Office; and inside one of the pods in the Nap Room in the lab, once you restore power with the signal modulator.
On Assisted and Standard difficulties, on either a first or second run, you can find a Hip Pouch in a locker in the maintenance area safe room after your first fight with the G-Type and on a bench in the Workroom in the sewer.
On a first run, there’s also a Hip Pouch on a table in the West Storage Room on the RPD’s third floor, by the C4 charge. However, on a second run, that Pouch gets moved to the RPD’s front desk.
Gun Fanatic
Collect all 6 weapons in Leon’s game.
Gun Enthusiast
Collect all 7 weapons in Claire’s game.
Both characters can find several weapons in the same places throughout their scenarios, and gain access to them in the same ways. In either case, your starting weapon automatically counts towards the totals here.
The shotgun or grenade launcher is in the Secure Storage Room on the RPD’s first floor, which is unlocked via the weapons locker keycard found in the Art Room on the second.
The SMG or Magnum is in the STARS Office’s Armory, which is locked by the nearby PC. To find the USB security dongle that opens it, you need the Red Jewel and the Ornate Box (in the Interrogation Room on a first run, and the Men’s Locker Room on the second). Once you have it open, examine the STARS Badge to find the switch on the back, and plug it into the PC in the Armory. (Whew!)
The Spark Shot or flamethrower is in the Supplies Storage Room in the sewers, and it requires both the king and queen plugs to access. It’s not hard to find, but the real trick is remembering to have enough spare inventory space that you can bring both plugs and your new gun with you when you leave.
In Claire’s game, you’ll find the minigun in the same office where you start up the train platform.
In Leon’s, you’ll be thrown the rocket launcher if you survive long enough during the final battle with the Tyrant.
In both characters’ second runs, they can find a new, exclusive weapon by visiting the storeroom under the RPD’s entrance. Claire receives a single-action .45 revolver, while Leon gets a .45 pistol. In other words, to complete this Record, you need to at least begin both characters’ second run.
Finally, Claire can get a semiautomatic handgun with a laser sight — her old Browning Hi-Power from the 1998 RE2, in fact — in the RPD's parking garage. Go to the firing range and get the broken car key out of the yellow lunchbox near the entrance.
Examine it to find the lock switch for the car, and press that button while you're standing in the parking garage.
Packed Pockets
Collect all 8 custom parts in Leon’s game.
Packed Backpack
Collect all 7 custom parts in Claire’s game.
Both Leon and Claire can find six of their weapon mods in the same locations:
Inside Leon’s desk in the RPD’s West Office.
In the safe in the Waiting Room on the RPD’s 2nd
In the safe in the Flow Control Room in the sewers.
Inside the STARS storage box at the bottom of the stairs underneath the goddess statue.
In the bottom left drawer of Wesker’s desk in the STARS Office, but only after you’ve developed the “Hiding Places” roll of film from the Workers’ Break Room in the sewers.
In the left-hand locker in the lab’s Nap Room.
Claire can find a custom part for the grenade launcher in the Elevator Control Room in the RPD’s basement, next to Chief Irons’s private lift.
Leon can find a custom part for the shotgun on the shelves near the entrance of Robert Kendo’s gunshop, and a custom part for the Matilda handgun by opening the trunk of the wrecked police car in the parking garage. (Claire finds a semiautomatic handgun there instead.)
Dark Times, Dark Room
Find and develop all 5 rolls of film.
Lore Explorer*
Read all 58 files in the game, as per our guide on the subject.
Master of Unlocking*
Open all of the safes and combination locks in the game.
There are three old-fashioned safes strewn throughout RE2, as well as five code locks, each of which takes a three-letter “password.” The safes’ combinations can all be found in various files, while the solutions to the code locks are a little trickier. The combinations do not change between scenarios or runs.
Below, you can find each necessary safe or locker's location, where you go to find the solution, and underneath, if necessary, the actual solution.
Safe #1, RPD West Office: Read the Internal Memo file behind Wesker’s desk in the STARS Office.
Solution: L9, R15, L7
Safe #2, RPD Waiting Room, second Floor: Read the Confiscation Report file in the RPD’s Observation Room.
Solution: L6, R2, L11
Safe #3, Treatment Pool Room: Read the Delivery Receipt file on the table at the end of the Cable Car Platform. (Or check the left side of the safe.)
Code Lock #1 & #2, RPD West Office: Read the Rookie’s First Assignment file on Leon’s closed desk, then check the six nearby desks for their owners’ name plates.
Solutions: NED, MRG
Code Lock #3, RPD West Wing, third floor: Develop the roll of film found behind the check-in desk at the Firing Range in the RPD’s basement.
Solution: DCM
Code Lock #4, RPD Men’s Locker Room, second floor: Written on a whiteboard in the side office north of the Records Room on the first floor.
Solution: CAP
Code Lock #5, Sewers Control Room: Check the Jazz Festival Flyer in the Workers’ Break Room for clues.
Solution: SZF
Puzzle Records
A Vault-Like Mind*
Open a Portable Safe. You can find your first one early in a first run in the men’s locker room on the second floor of the RPD. One is always in the Linen Room near the STARS Office, accessible only once you have the diamond key from the Morgue, but on a second run, the other Safe is moved to the Interrogation Room on the first floor.
The solutions to Portable Safes are randomized every time, but each button corresponds to a light on the safe. All you have to do is hit the buttons in the right order to light them all up in sequence, which takes a bit of trial and error.
Young Escapee*
In Claire’s game, when you play as Sherry, escape from the Bedroom within 60 seconds. You’ll want to do this on Assisted or Standard because you can revert to the autosave right at the start of this section if you blow it.
The question here is how quickly you can solve the block puzzle and get the Scissors. Fortunately, once you know the shortcut, it's not as hard as it sounds.
Turn around immediately, grab the doll, examine it in your inventory, and turn it around to find the Block inside. Take it to the puzzle in the corner of the room, where it automatically gets installed in the fourth slot. Now, take the first block and move it two spots over, to the third position.
From here, just spin the blocks until the symbols match, grab the Scissors, and use them on the cardboard that's blocking the wall.
In Leon’s first run, rewire the panel on Ben’s cell door and open it within 13 moves.
The easiest way to show the solutions here, and on the three subsequent similar Records, is simply to display an image of how the puzzle looks when it's been successfully completed. Keep this nearby when you play the game, on scratch paper or your phone, and use it to guide your moves. For each of the power panel puzzles, getting the Record requires that you make no wrong moves at all.
When you install the two Power Parts in this panel, it initially looks like this.
You want it to look like this.
Hardly Any Resistance
In Leon’s second run, rewire the panel on Ben’s cell door and open it within 8 moves.
As above, you start off like this:
And you want to get it like this:
Voltage Virtuoso
In Claire’s first run, rewire the door panel in the Private Observation Room within seven moves.
This is the hardest of the four power panel Records, because it's the most difficult to eyeball. The trick is basically to not overthink it.
It starts off looking like this.
To solve it, you'll get it to look like this.
Assuming it's a grid, with A through D on the top going right, and 1 through 4 on the left going down: hit C3, A1, B4, and D3, before spinning the blue T-shaped block at C3 until the puzzle completes.
A Jewel Amongst Joules
In Claire’s second run, rewire the door panel in the Private Observation Room within 11 moves.
You start like this:
...and you want to end up like this.
On either character’s 1st Run, fill the herbicide cartridge in the Drug Testing Lab in eight moves.
This is basically the old puzzle about how to precisely fill up a five-gallon jug by using two three-gallon jugs. It’s easier than it looks, but easy to mess up, especially if you want this Record.
Push the buttons in this order: center, left, right, center, left, right, center, left.
Genius Chemist
On either character’s second run, fill the herbicide cartridge in the Drug Testing Lab in 9 moves.
Push the buttons in this order: right, middle, left, right, middle, left, right, middle, left.
This wraps up all of the Records in the 2019 Resident Evil 2, as well as all of the achievements in the base game. You'll need to get two more from the free Ghost Survivors DLC to call it 100% complete, but in the meantime, at least you've gotten your money's worth out of the game.
To find more tips and guides, head over to our Resident Evil 2 guides page.
Thomas Wilde
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Review: Oculus
2014-04-05 15:00:00by Mike Cosimano
I don't have time for your illusions
Have you ever seen a movie that you knew had a sizable amount of problems, but you couldn’t keep yourself from recommending it? There were issues abound, some that would potentially sink a lesser film. But the movie just absolutely nails one or two things, and wouldn’t you know it, those are the things that matter. So you’re caught between two opposite ends of the quality spectrum, picking apart equally interesting failures and successes. Has this ever happened to you?
Well, it’s happened to me. And I can think of a particularly apt example.
Director: Mike Flanigan
The plot of Oculus is a difficult one to recap, for multiple reasons. Although it begins in the present day, following Kaylie (Karen Gillian, sporting a pretty decent American accent) and her brother Tim Russell (Brenton Thwaites), the movie jumps between current events and the siblings’ childhood almost seamlessly. Chronologically, here’s the rundown. Back in 2002, the Russell family moved into a new home and bought an antique mirror (called the Lasser Glass) to spruce the place up. Except -- get this -- the mirror is evil! As it slowly takes control of Russell parents Alan (Rory Cochrane) and Marie (Katee Sackhoff), the children are lowered into a veritable Hell from which an ordinary pair of pre-teens could not hope to escape.
Thing is, we already know how that part ends from the word “go.” Alan kills Marie, and Tim is forced to kill Alan. Poor Tim is put in a mental institution for ten years, but now he’s out and Kaylie wants him to assist her in killing the nefarious Lasser Glass. Years of therapy have conditioned Tim to believe the mirror is just a mirror, and he thinks his sister needs help getting over her delusions. So he agrees to sit in on her experiment that will hopefully prove the supernatural reflective surface was responsible for the Russell murders. Kaylie has precautions and measuring devices of every…well, measure.
If done properly, this could have made for a super interesting psychological thriller. Who’s right? Is Kaylie insane, or is the mirror home to some kind of horrific entity? Sadly, the movie answers that question pretty early on. Even before the actual question of Kaylie’s sanity is even brought up, we know what the mirror’s deal is. And then Oculus really puts that idea to bed once the experiment gets started.
As a result, the film makes a somewhat harsh turn into Spooktown once it calls its own bluff. Oculus’ gimmick is the Lasser Glass’ ability to cast powerful tricks illusions on its victims. This wreaks utter havoc on the movie’s structure, because once it’s established that both Kaylie and Tim have no idea what’s real, the audience has a similar problem. It’s hard to get invested when you’re not sure if what you’re seeing will have any effect on the story.
There are moments where Kaylie uses an iPhone to discern what’s real and what isn’t, but I could easily count them on a single hand and still have enough fingers to write this review. Props where props are deserved; Oculus sets up rules for its supernatural force and follows them. But some additional rules in favor of the protagonists would help make Oculus more than a series of acceptably connected memorable visuals.
But hey, those visuals are incredible. There are some images from Oculus that I would buy if they were repurposed as fancy prints. Director Mike Flanigan certainly knows how to use a limited budget, crafting a haunted house that feels real, until Kaylie and Tim’s parents go all psycho.
As for the performances, the small cast really gives their all. Even the child actors portraying young Kaylie and Tim are just the right mix of vulnerable and brave. Interestingly enough, it’s current-day Kaylie and Tim that feel like the weak links. Thanks to both kids and the stellar team of Sackhoff and Cochrane, the 2002 flashbacks are where the movie derives most of its tension. We know the end point, and getting there is a really fun ride. You see, the mirror does have some influence over the young Russells, but they’re still doing things that matter within the story. But when it comes time to jump ahead 10 years, the film almost gets boring. It all comes back to the constant trickery illusions; these mini-twists are invalidating whole scenes. It just gets dull after a while.
The 2012 scenes aren’t without great scares, but what makes a really good horror film is some level of empathy. Maybe a higher bodycount in 2012 would’ve added some tangible stakes? By this point, you may be asking why they just didn’t smash the mirror before they powered it up for the experiment? That is an excellent question. I do not have a satisfactory answer for you, and neither does the movie. Kaylie wants to prove her family’s innocence, but she also knows what the Lasser Glass is capable of. What was her plan after she got the evidence? Smash it then? Oculus’ present-day scenes aren’t exactly complicated on the surface, but I’m still having trouble piecing together Kaylie and Tim’s perpetually shifting motivations. And I’ve seen this movie twice.
If I seem down on Oculus, that’s because the movie is definitely a case of the final product being more than the sum of its parts. The visuals are stellar and the scares are viscerally pleasing. And this is a horror movie, so it’s good that Oculus nails those aspects. But if you’re not a horror junkie itching for your next fix, maybe there’s something else at your local cinema that would fit the bill a little better. You’ll probably just walk out confused.
At the very least, WWE Studios has finally produced something worth a damn.
Oculus reviewed by Mike Cosimano
Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.
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Have you ever stood in the Hall of the Five Hundred and looked up? If this is the case, you would have witnessed the room’s magnificent ceiling. However, you might not have been aware that what is above the ceiling is even more fascinating.
In his novel Inferno, Dan Brown describes the wooden beams that support the ceiling of the Hall of the Five Hundred as whole tree trunks cut and arranged horizontally and spanning 22 metres from wall to wall.
Today, a lift reserved for employees and associates sits on the top floor behind a security door protecting one of the most incredible and delicate areas of the building. The door opens into a space dimly lighted, making the atmosphere even more mysterious.
There are bolts, nails, gigantic fir and oak beams, joints, walkways, and the smell of wood. This area, located between the roof of the Palazzo Vecchio and the ceiling of the Hall of the Five Hundred, is commonly referred to as la soffitta (the garret).
The soffitta of the Hall of the Five Hundred is quite impressive, as one can taste the smell of old wood and have the impression of being situated in an artificial forest of giant trees, while being above one of the world’s finest halls.
In the garret there are two types of roof timbers: large trusses of the traditional type, clearly delegated to support the roof, and those of unusual design, placed at a lower level than the first type, clearly supporting the ceiling they hold.
Giorgio Vasari was certainly the creator (with documented advice given by Michelangelo) of the general arrangement of the exhibition, covering large trusses of the traditional type, particularly the coffered ceiling, which he painted himself during its construction beginning in 1563.
The construction of a large room, advocated by Dominican Brother Girolamo Savonarola, who was to host meetings of the Great Council (the supreme organ of the city), began in 1495, by an act of July 15. The authorship of the first project for the garret of the hall is attributed by Vasari to Simone del Pollaiolo aka il Cronaca in his Lives.
Approximately seventy years later, under the direction of Vasari, as part of the most extensive renovation program of the Palazzo Vecchio started by Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, was the dismantling of the coverage by Cronaca, the raising of the walls of the great hall and the rebuilding further up of the cover and the coffered ceiling.
The works conducted by Vasari were extended to both the structural and decorative aspects.
We know the details of these works thanks to ancient documents: Bernardo, born from Antonio and Mona Mattea, bricklayer, and Baptista Botticelli, carpenter, were in charge of raise the walls of the hall, lift the trusses, walling them, shoe them, arm them, and step on it the roof. They also carefully disassembled the existing stage to be able to retrieve the timber, nails and other ironware, and to realize the stage with dry and seasoned wood, depending on the model and the drawing made by Giorgio Vasari.
The work was carried out in less than three years.
The structures are visible today above the Hall of the Five Hundred; however, they are not all by Vasari: important maintenance work to support the garret was undertaken in 1853.
The Florentines believe that a ghost roams in the soffitta: that of Baldaccio d’Anghiari.
He was first in the service of Florence, then tried to conquer Piombino to create an independent state.
Fearing his ascent, Cosimo I de’ Medici ordered that his murder be carried out in the Palazzo Vecchio, then had his bodythrown into the Piazza della Signoria (1441).
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Home Insights Indirect Communications Can Be Violations of Regulation FD — the SEC's Case Against Office Depot
Indirect Communications Can Be Violations of Regulation FD — the SEC's Case Against Office Depot
01 November 2010 Publication
Authors: Michael B. Kirwan Danielle R. Whitley John J. Wolfel
Legal News Alert: Transactional & Securities
On October 21, 2010, the SEC announced that it had settled charges against Office Depot, Inc., its CEO, and its then-CFO for violations of Regulation FD1 resulting in cease-and-desist orders and fines of $1 million for Office Depot and $50,000 each for the CEO and then-CFO. The charges related to Office Depot intentionally communicating “signals” to analysts in one-on-one calls late in the second quarter of 2007 that implied that Office Depot would not meet the analysts’ quarterly earnings estimates. These calls occurred six days prior to Office Depot’s filing a Form 8-K announcing its earnings would be negatively impacted by a softening economy.
Regulation FD2 provides that when a company, or person acting on its behalf, discloses material nonpublic information to certain enumerated persons (in general, securities market professionals and holders of the issuer's securities who may trade on the basis of the information), it must make public disclosure of that information. For an intentional selective disclosure, the issuer must make public disclosure simultaneously.
Office Depot’s Regulation FD Violations
Late in the second quarter of 2007, the CEO alerted Office Depot’s board of directors that Office Depot would likely not meet the analysts’ consensus earnings-per-share estimates for the second quarter and that senior management was developing a strategy to avoid a complete surprise to the market. The CEO and then-CFO were apparently uncomfortable issuing a press release at that time because the internal estimates of earnings per share were not final. Instead of making a public announcement, the CEO and then-CFO jointly decided to instruct the director of investor relations to call 18 analysts covering Office Depot individually and refer them to recent earnings announcements by two comparable companies whose results were impacted by a slowing economy.
The then-CFO and others drafted the following talking points for the director of investor relations to use on these individual analyst calls:
Haven’t spoken in a while, just want to touch base.
At beg. of Qtr we’ve talked about a number of head winds that we were facing this quarter including a softening economy, especially at small end.
I think the earnings release we have seen from the likes of [Company A], [Company B], and [Company C] have been interesting.
On a sequential basis, [Company A] and [Company B] domestic comps were down substantially over prior quarters.
[Company C] mentioned economic conditions as a reason for their slowed growth.
Some have pointed to better conditions in the second half of the year – however who knows?
Remind you that economic model contemplates stable economic conditions – that is midteens growth.
The director of investor relations contacted the 18 analysts over two business days. By the end of the second day of the calls, 15 of the 18 analysts lowered their estimates. The SEC noted in the complaint that on June 22, 2007, the first day of the calls, Office Depot’s stock price decreased 2.8 percent and trading volume was more than double the average volume for that week. Furthermore, the SEC noted that between June 22, 2007 (the first day of calls) and June 28, 2007 (the last market close before Office Depot filed a Form 8-K publicly disclosing that the economy had negatively impacted its earnings), Office Depot’s stock price dropped 7.7 percent.
The SEC noted that:
Office Depot did not have a written Regulation FD policy and had never conducted any formal Regulation FD training
Both the CEO and then-CFO had prior investor relations experience and were directly involved in the actions that caused the violation
The timing of the calls (at the end of the quarter) implied that the calls were based on actual data
The reaction of the market was a significant movement in both volume and price
Information to Take Away From the Office Depot Enforcement Action
The Office Depot enforcement action was unique in that Office Depot did not directly tell the analysts that it would not meet its earnings estimates; rather, this message was “signaled” to the analysts in individual calls. This case is a stark reminder to companies that even implied signals to the market can create a Regulation FD violation. Furthermore, this case highlights the risk that companies take when they have one-on-one calls with analysts in general and especially near the end of a reporting period.
1 See http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-202.htm.
2 See http://taft.law.uc.edu/CCL/regFD/FD100.html.
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Weekly Roundup: IFF’s Frutarom division acquires major stake in Leagal, CP Kelco increases Brazilian pectin production capacity
15 Mar 2019 --- This week in business news, IFF’s Frutarom division has acquired a 70 percent stake in Leagel, an Italian-based producer of ice cream ingredients. CP Kelco announced its plans to increase pectin production capacity at its Limeira, Brazil facility by 10 percent. Kemin Industries has added a new Oxidation Stability Index (OSI) calculator for its Food Technologies North America website.
In brief: Business
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) has announced that its Frutarom division has completed the acquisition of a 70 percent stake in Leagel S.r.l. (Leagel), a producer of ice cream and gelato ingredients in Europe. A family-owned company based in San Marino, Italy, Leagel specializes in artisanal taste, texture and toppings sold directly to ice cream and gelato shops. “The purchase of the stake in Leagel aligns well with our strategic acquisition in 2017 of SDFLC Brasil Indústria E Comércio Ltda. (SDFLC), a top Brazilian producer of taste solutions for ice creams and desserts,” says Amos Anatot, President of IFF's Frutarom Division. “We see great opportunities to combine these companies and create a global platform for our ice cream ingredients business, expand our geographic reach and leverage cross-selling opportunities.” Leagel has 61 employees serving 1600 direct customers and distributors, with a geographic reach that includes 25 countries in Europe. The company’s portfolio includes artisanal ingredients to a full suite of products and equipment for the gelato and ice cream retailer. IFF retains an option for the residual 30 percent stake in Leagel to be exercised after three years.
Click to EnlargeDennis Woodside, Impossible FoodsSpecialty hydrocolloid producer CP Kelco is to invest to increase its pectin production capacity at its Limeira, Brazil facility by 10 percent. This investment will enhance the market supply of pectin by the end of 2019. “All around the world, our customers are creating innovative beverages that require nature-based ingredients. In Asia, for example, we see robust growth in drinking yogurts and low pH protein drinks, in which pectin is an essential ingredient for creating high-quality products,” says Jérôme Béra, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing. “As these markets expand, we are committed to continuing our investments and already have other projects planned to add capacity as needed and in a timely manner to support our customers’ growth aspirations.”
In brief: Appointments & retirements
Impossible Foods has hired Dennis Woodside to join the food-tech start-up in the newly created role of President, effective March 18, 2019. Woodside, a tech industry veteran, has nearly 25 years of professional experience at both start-ups and publicly traded multinationals. “After an exhaustive search to fill a critical position, Dennis stood out for his proven track record of turning startups into transformative corporations,” says Impossible Foods’ CEO, Chairman and Founder, Dr. Patrick O. Brown, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Stanford University and a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. “Dennis is also a 14-time Ironman Triathlon finisher, so I know he has the discipline and endurance to go the distance for Impossible Foods.” Woodside most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Dropbox, where he was responsible for all customer-facing functions and revenue generation. Before that, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Motorola Mobility, a US$10 billion mobile device company, after its acquisition by Google. He worked at Google from 2003-2012, overseeing more than US$10 billion in sales in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, among other leadership roles. “I love what Impossible Foods is doing: using science and technology to deliver delicious and nutritious foods that people love, in an environmentally sustainable way,” Woodside says. “I’m equally thrilled to focus on providing the award-winning Impossible Burger and future products to millions of consumers, restaurants and retailers.”
Click to EnlargeIn brief: Other highlights
Kemin Industries has added a new Oxidation Stability Index (OSI) calculator for its Food Technologies North America website. According to Kemin, the digital slider tool allows formulators to select the desired number of Oxidative Stability Index (OSI) hours, then provides shelf-life calculations for various fats and oils. This enables manufacturers to determine the ideal oil and antioxidant solution combination they need to meet cost targets and shelf-life goals. “We developed the OSI calculator so that formulators would have an easily accessible tool to help them maximize the desired shelf life of their food products,” says Courtney Schwartz, Marketing Director for Kemin Food Technologies. “Many manufacturers are seeking to remove traditionally used synthetic ingredients without switching to a high cost/high-stability oil, which can often reduce the stability of their oil. For example, GT-FORT, Kemin’s oil-soluble green tea extract, give manufacturers a label-friendly, cost-effective solution to help meet their needs.” The GT-FORT product line of plant extracts for fats and oils assists with oxidation control, significantly delaying lipid oxidation, which lengthens the shelf life of food and maintains brand consistency, says Kemin.
Triton Algae Innovations, a San Diego-based start-up focused on new food and nutritional products derived from a highly nutritious algae, has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “has no questions” that Triton’s algae ingredient Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (C. reinhardtii) is GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) for its intended uses in food. FDA reached this finding following a lengthy and rigorous evaluation of a comprehensive science dossier prepared by Triton, which was comprised of toxicological safety studies and characterization data. This dossier had been previously reviewed by an independent panel of experts, which also concluded that Triton’s algae is GRAS.
By Elizabeth Green
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Pumpkin spice may be the seasonal flavor du jour (or du decade!), but there are several science-backed reasons why peppermint should top your flavor list this holiday. Not only does the fresh taste of peppermint offset and brighten many of the season’s more indulgent choices, but it also comes with compelling health benefits.
An aromatic herb in the mint family, peppermint is a cross between water mint and spearmint, and it’s most often used as a flavoring in breath mints, candies and other foods, and brewed as a caffeine-free tea. The leaves of peppermint contain several essential oils, including menthol, menthone and limonene. Menthol is the extract that provides the recognizable minty scent and cooling effect on taste buds.
For centuries and in cultures around the world, mint has been used in similar ways: Ancient Egyptians prescribed mint to ease upset stomachs, and it was served as an after-meal digestive aid in ancient Greece and Rome. Both Chinese and Ayurvedic medical traditions also have relied on mint to relieve digestive distress.
Here are the seven main health benefits you’ll reap this winter by brewing a refreshing cup of peppermint tea, enjoying a peppermint-infused treat or diffusing some peppermint essential oil.
1. Reduce daytime fatigue
A 2018 study of 24 participants with an average age of 25 years showed that those who were given a peppermint oil capsule experienced less fatigue during a cognitive test. In another study, participants who were in a room where peppermint oil was diffused showed significantly less daytime sleepiness than those who were in an odorless room.
2. Relieve menstrual cramps
As a proven muscle relaxant, peppermint may provide some relief from the pain associated with menstrual cramping. In a 2016 study, 127 women with chronic painful periods experienced reductions in the intensity and duration of menstrual pain. The outcome was just as effective with peppermint extract capsules as with a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Nausea and diarrhea, however, were lower in the group taking peppermint than the group taking the pharmaceutical drug.
3. Unclog sinuses
Ever experience a cooling, opening effect on your airways after eating a breath mint or sipping peppermint tea? What you’re feeling is menthol—one of the active compounds in peppermint—at work. Research demonstrates that menthol improves the perception of airflow in your nasal cavity. Additionally, the antibacterial, antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties in peppermint may relieve infection-induced sinus clogging.
4. Calm an upset stomach
Animal studies show promise that peppermint eases pain in the digestive system by preventing smooth muscles in the gut from contracting. In a systematic review of nine research studies, which included more than 700 people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), treatment with peppermint oil for two weeks provided significantly better relief of symptoms than for those who took a placebo. Also, a review of 14 clinical trials involving 1,927 children and adolescents with gastrointestinal disorders showed that peppermint oil reduced the frequency, duration and severity of abdominal pain.
5. Decrease symptoms of seasonal allergies
Rosmarinic acid is a compound found in peppermint, as well as rosemary and other plants in the mint family. In one three-week study involving 29 people with seasonal allergies, those given a supplement containing rosmarinic acid ad fewer instances of itchy nose, itchy eyes and other allergy-related symptoms than those given a placebo. In an animal study, rats that suffered from allergic rhinitis—an irritation and inflammation of the mucous membrane inside the nose—experienced fewer allergic symptoms such as sneezing and itchy nose after being given peppermint extract.
6. Diminish tension headaches and migraines
Research has shown that peppermint oil induces a significant increase in blood flow of the forehead’s skin after local application, measured by laser Doppler, and provides a cooling sensation, possibly easing acute headache pain. In a 2010 study of 35 people with chronic migraines, the majority of whom were women, those who received peppermint oil aromatherapy applied to the forehead and temples showed a statistically significant reduction in pain after two hours, compared with those treated with a placebo oil. In another study involving 41 patients who experienced a combined total of 164 headaches during the trial, the effect of a locally applied peppermint oil preparation on tension-type headache was examined. In those patients, peppermint oil applied to the forehead was shown to be as effective as taking 1,000 mg of acetaminophen.
7. Fight bacterial infections
Peppermint oil has been shown to kill several types of bacteria that lead to human illnesses, such as E. coli, Staphylococcus and Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium linked to pneumonia. Also, in one study, peppermint oil was found to kill and prevent the growth of common food-borne bacteria, such as Listeria, Salmonella and E. coli, in mango and pineapple juices. Further, in a systematic review of 52 relevant articles in the PubMed database, menthol from peppermint oil was found to reduce common bacteria living in the mouth that can lead to oral problems such as dental caries and periodontal disease.
How to make peppermint tea:
1. Tear 5–10 organic peppermint leaves into pieces, and place them in a small tea strainer inside a teapot or cup.
2. Bring 2 cups filtered water to a boil and pour over the strainer (the strainer should be submerged in the water); cover pot or cup and let leaves steep for 5 minutes.
3. Using the back of a wooden spoon, gently bruise mint leaves to release their oils. Remove strainer, pressing the leaves to extract as much liquid as possible.
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Repairing brain circuits using nanotechnology
A July 30, 2019 news item on Nanowerk announces some neuroscience research (they used animal models) that could prove helpful with neurodegenerative diseases,
Working with mouse and human tissue, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report new evidence that a protein pumped out of some — but not all — populations of “helper” cells in the brain, called astrocytes, plays a specific role in directing the formation of connections among neurons needed for learning and forming new memories.
Using mice genetically engineered and bred with fewer such connections, the researchers conducted proof-of-concept experiments that show they could deliver corrective proteins via nanoparticles to replace the missing protein needed for “road repairs” on the defective neural highway.
Since such connective networks are lost or damaged by neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or certain types of intellectual disability, such as Norrie disease, the researchers say their findings advance efforts to regrow and repair the networks and potentially restore normal brain function.
A July 30, 2019 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine news release (also on EurekAlert) provides more detail about the work (Note: A link has been removed),
“We are looking at the fundamental biology of how astrocytes function, but perhaps have discovered a new target for someday intervening in neurodegenerative diseases with novel therapeutics,” says Jeffrey Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., the John W. Griffin Director of the Brain Science Institute and professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
“Although astrocytes appear to all look alike in the brain, we had an inkling that they might have specialized roles in the brain due to regional differences in the brain’s function and because of observed changes in certain diseases,” says Rothstein. “The hope is that learning to harness the individual differences in these distinct populations of astrocytes may allow us to direct brain development or even reverse the effects of certain brain conditions, and our current studies have advanced that hope.”
In the brain, astrocytes are the support cells that act as guides to direct new cells, promote chemical signaling, and clean up byproducts of brain cell metabolism.
Rothstein’s team focused on a particular astrocyte protein, glutamate transporter-1, which previous studies suggested was lost from astrocytes in certain parts of brains with neurodegenerative diseases. Like a biological vacuum cleaner, the protein normally sucks up the chemical “messenger” glutamate from the spaces between neurons after a message is sent to another cell, a step required to end the transmission and prevent toxic levels of glutamate from building up.
When these glutamate transporters disappear from certain parts of the brain — such as the motor cortex and spinal cord in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — glutamate hangs around much too long, sending messages that overexcite and kill the cells.
To figure out how the brain decides which cells need the glutamate transporters, Rothstein and colleagues focused on the region of DNA in front of the gene that typically controls the on-off switch needed to manufacture the protein. They genetically engineered mice to glow red in every cell where the gene is activated.
Normally, the glutamate transporter is turned on in all astrocytes. But, by using between 1,000- and 7,000-bit segments of DNA code from the on-off switch for glutamate, all the cells in the brain glowed red, including the neurons. It wasn’t until the researchers tried the largest sequence of an 8,300-bit DNA code from this location that the researchers began to see some selection in red cells. These red cells were all astrocytes but only in certain layers of the brain’s cortex in mice.
Because they could identify these “8.3 red astrocytes,” the researchers thought they might have a specific function different than other astrocytes in the brain. To find out more precisely what these 8.3 red astrocytes do in the brain, the researchers used a cell-sorting machine to separate the red astrocytes from the uncolored ones in mouse brain cortical tissue, and then identified which genes were turned on to much higher than usual levels in the red compared to the uncolored cell populations. The researchers found that the 8.3 red astrocytes turn on high levels of a gene that codes for a different protein known as Norrin.
Rothstein’s team took neurons from normal mouse brains, treated them with Norrin, and found that those neurons grew more of the “branches” — or extensions — used to transmit chemical messages among brain cells. Then, Rothstein says, the researchers looked at the brains of mice engineered to lack Norrin, and saw that these neurons had fewer branches than in healthy mice that made Norrin.
In another set of experiments, the research team took the DNA code for Norrin plus the 8,300 “location” DNA and assembled them into deliverable nanoparticles. When they injected the Norrin nanoparticles into the brains of mice engineered without Norrin, the neurons in these mice began to quickly grow many more branches, a process suggesting repair to neural networks. They repeated these experiments with human neurons too.
Rothstein notes that mutations in the Norrin protein that reduce levels of the protein in people cause Norrie disease — a rare, genetic disorder that can lead to blindness in infancy and intellectual disability. Because the researchers were able to grow new branches for communication, they believe it may one day be possible to use Norrin to treat some types of intellectual disabilities such as Norrie disease.
For their next steps, the researchers are investigating if Norrin can repair connections in the brains of animal models with neurodegenerative diseases, and in preparation for potential success, Miller [sic] and Rothstein have submitted a patent for Norrin.
Here’s a link to and a citation for the paper,
Molecularly defined cortical astroglia subpopulation modulates neurons via secretion of Norrin by Sean J. Miller, Thomas Philips, Namho Kim, Raha Dastgheyb, Zhuoxun Chen, Yi-Chun Hsieh, J. Gavin Daigle, Malika Datta, Jeannie Chew, Svetlana Vidensky, Jacqueline T. Pham, Ethan G. Hughes, Michael B. Robinson, Rita Sattler, Raju Tomer, Jung Soo Suk, Dwight E. Bergles, Norman Haughey, Mikhail Pletnikov, Justin Hanes & Jeffrey D. Rothstein. Nature Neuroscience volume 22, pages741–752 (2019) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0366-7 Published: 01 April 2019 Issue Date: May 2019
This paper is behind a paywall.
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The DS-2 mission was the second 'Deep Space' mission in NASA's New Millennium technology validation programme (Smrekar et al., 1999). It was to demonstrate miniaturized penetrators to enable subsurface and network science. The spacecraft that flew were radically smaller - by two orders of magnitude -than anything NASA had previously flown to the planets. The project cost a remarkably modest $29.6 million.
The original concept anticipated deployment at low latitude on Mars, and a payload including a microseismometer. As the mission evolved, and the delivery opportunity as a 'piggyback' payload on the Mars Polar Lander emerged, the mission concept had to change. In particular, the low-temperature environment at high latitudes on Mars reduced the expected energy capacity of the batteries (and thus the penetrators' lifetime) to the point where it was no longer likely that worthwhile seismic data would be acquired.
The new payload therefore centred on measuring the volatile content of the high-latitude soil. The same thermal environment that eroded the energy capability of the mission also made it likely that water might be trapped as ice in the soil.
Entry performance was driven by the entry conditions (at 6.9 km s-1 with a flight path angle of -13.1°, as for MPL) and the allowed flight parameters (velocity, angle of incidence) at impact (Braun et al. 1999b). A significant and unusual aspect was that since the probes were delivered as a secondary payload, no orientation or spin-up was provided to ensure any given orientation at entry (see Figure 25.1 for a view of the mounting structure/separation mechanism). (It may be noted in this context that the Viking entry bodies were hypersonically stable flying backwards.) The result was first the use of a 45° half-angle cone, instead of the more usual 70°, which offers higher drag (Cd — 1.7, versus 1.05 for the 45° cone). The second aspect was the very tight requirement on having the centre of mass as far forward as possible. These two aspects gave the system a
Figure 25.1. A DS-2 Microprobe mounted in the structure that attached it to Mars Polar Lander (mounted in turn on mechanical ground support equipment). The probes were ejected with a relative speed of <0.3 m s"1 and no spin. Note the very sturdy-looking 'spider' fitting that holds the microprobe.
strong 'weathercock' stability. The forward CoM requirement necessitated a novel two-part design, wherein the penetrating forebody was surrounded by, rather than mounted in front of, an aftbody that would remain on the surface to perform communications.
To satisfy the permitted range of impact speed (140-210 m s" ) the ballistic
coefficient fl was required to be in the range 18-49 kg m , while the penetration incidence angle constraint (i.e. the velocity relative to vertical) of <30° required fl < 44.5 kg m"2. The angle of attack (i.e. the orientation of the vehicle relative to the velocity vector) was to be less than 10° - exceeding the incidence or angle of attack limits would lead to 'skip', the aftbody not remaining embedded securely in the ground. Nominally, the 0.35 m diameter shell and as-built mass of 3.6 kg gave fl = 36.5 kg m-2, leading to a peak deceleration of 12.4 g at an altitude of 44 km and a peak stagnation point heating of 175 W cm-2, after about 100 and 80 s respectively; integrated stagnation point heating would be 8085 J cm-2 (Micheltree et al., 1998). Impact (at a nominal altitude of 6 km - the southern high latitudes are elevated terrain, well above the 6 mbar Martian datum) would be at 191 m s-1 (around Mach 0.8) and 20° incidence, around 270 s after crossing the entry threshold (defined as a radius of 3522.2 km, around 142 km above the surface). The aftbody had to tolerate decelerations of some 60 000 g. The fore-body, penetrating further than the aftbody, therefore had a longer stroke over which to decelerate, so its impact loads were specified at 30000 g. The 3-c landing ellipse determined from Monte-Carlo simulations was about 180 X 20 km in extent: these simulations gave a probability of 76% for each probe (or 94% for either) to satisfy the impact conditions.
Tests to achieve reliable sub-surface soil sampling passively with holes or blades on the forebody were unsuccessful, and an auger drill had to be included in the design. This 9 mm diameter drill had an 8.5 mm stroke, driven by a 1W motor modified for high-g impact loads. The sample drizzled during drilling into a small cup; after drill operation the sample was sealed inside the forebody by a small pyrotechnic door mechanism.
The soil water detector comprised a small cup (able to hold about 160 mm3 of sample) around which a nichrome heater wire was wound. Thermistors were mounted on the edge of the cup and in the centre. The temperature rise experienced by the sensors for a given applied heating current would depend on the amount and thermal properties of the material deposited in the cup. It therefore acts as a crude form of thermal analyser. In particular, a deviation from a smooth heating curve would be observed if significant amounts of ice were present in the sample.
More sensitive detection of water was accomplished with a small absorption cell. A tunable diode laser emits light in a narrow bandwidth (nominally around 1.37 mm) that is swept across a wavelength range by modulating the current to the diode. The light from this source passes through a small volume that may be filled with gas from the sample; when the laser is at wavelengths where water vapour absorbs strongly, the light received by a photodiode is attenuated. The frequency-sweeping approach allows a more sensitive and robust detection than would a fixed wavelength.
Temperature sensors (platinum resistance thermometers) were embedded in the walls of the forebody to monitor the secular cooling of the probe after its emplacement into the Martian soil. The cooldown curve would yield information on the thermal conductivity (and indeed the temperature) of the soil (Urquhart and Smrekar, 2000; Smrekar et al., 2001).
A pressure sensor, using a micromachined silicon membrane, was to be flown. An earlier concept, also robust enough to be deployed on a penetrator, used a small radioactive source (in fact the same source used in domestic smoke detectors) as an ionization gauge.
Entry and impact accelerometers were installed on the aftbody and forebody respectively. The former were off-the-shelf micromachined devices (Analog Devices ADXL250, often used in cars for airbag actuation), the latter an Endevco 7270 piezoresistive accelerometer.
As the mission development progressed, the scientific capability of the mission was eroded somewhat (science was always only a bonus - the principal goal of the mission was to demonstrate a safe delivery to the surface). In particular, the telecommunications system experienced severe development difficulties, and the original intent of fitting the entire system on a single hybrid chip was not realized. The replacement design, introduced only 12 months or so before launch, used discrete components requiring both more volume (or circuit-board space) and more electrical power. The electrical power requirement reduced the expected mission duration (again) and the energy available for sample heating, which was otherwise the dominant consumer of energy. The growth of board space required for the communications system meant that the pressure sensor could no longer be accommodated.
Unusually, mass (see Table 25.1) was not the tightest constraint on instrumentation. Volume was in general more at a premium than mass. The mass distribution of the probe was critical, however, in that the passive aerodynamic stabilisation of the entry shell required that the probe centre of mass be as far forward as possible (see Figure 25.2). This was achieved in part by the forebody-in-aftbody concentric design, and by introducing a tungsten nose to the fore-body. This hemispherical nose, around 200 g in mass (about 1/3 of the total forebody mass, and many times the mass of the instruments) exploits the extremely high density of tungsten.
Table 25.1. Mass budget (per probe) of the DS-2 Mars Microprobes
Aftbody 1780 (incl. ^50 telecom system, 320 battery)
Forebody 670 (incl. 200 tungsten nose, ~10 microcontroller)
Entry system 1165
Entry mass total 3610
Spacecraft interface 2920
Aeroshell back shell
Figure 25.2. Drawing showing the layout of the probe installed in its aeroshell. The location of the probe gives a forward centre of gravity and thus 'weathercock' stability.
Little wind tunnel testing was performed, the aerodynamic performance being assessed principally by computational fluid dynamic simulation. The simulations were validated by ballistic range testing, and one hypersonic wind tunnel test at a facility in Russia.
Impact testing was a laborious aspect of the programme. Electronic components were mounted on test projectiles and shot into the ground, and taken back to the lab for health checks. The flight batteries posed a significant hazard in that they could explode if damaged by the impact. A separate series of tests was performed to evaluate impact accelerometer performance (Lorenz et al., 2000). The aftbody was to remain on the surface to permit data transmission - its penetration depth was stated to be <10 cm, although in some tests on soft targets it did penetrate more than 30cm (Lorenz et al., 2000). The forebody was nominally to penetrate up to —1 m.
The aftbody (Figure 25.3) was partially independent, in that it contained the crucial systems, namely the batteries and the communication system. Even if the forebody failed, or the umbilical cable broke, the aftbody would continue to operate and transmit data. The aftbody telecommunications system included a 6502 microprocessor, running around 8000 lines of code at 10 MHz. The receiver would operate for 1 s every minute to detect the query tones of the MGS relay spacecraft. After the first successful downlink, the sample sequence would be run.
The forebody (Figure 25.4) contained a microcontroller (Figure 25.5). This unit was based on an 8051 architecture with 64K RAM and 128K EEPROM.
Figure 25.3. Exploded view of the aftbody. Electronics were mounted on a flat circuit board; the principal other elements were a solar-cell experiment, the antenna and the batteries.
The unit, which incorporated a 16-channel 12-bit analogue-to-digital converter, was designed for very low power (<50 mW at 1 MHz, with a 1 mW sleep mode) and low volume and mass (<8cm3, <90 g). The microcontroller supervised forebody operations with about 14000 lines of code (in 8051 assembler) including the impact accelerometer sampling and the drill and heater cup. The analogue-to-digital converter on the forebody demonstrated operation at —70 °C, although its accuracy degraded somewhat at that temperature.
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Figure 25.4. Cross-section of the forebody layout. Clearly this spacecraft structure, like that of a wristwatch, is much more tightly integrated with the other subsystems. The auger drill would emerge to the right, and soil would drizzle into the sample chamber.
The forebody transmitted data along the umbilical to the aftbody twice every hour.
The DS-2 structure used some rather exotic materials. The forebody comprised a high-strength superalloy tube (MP35N) with a tungsten nose. The 'science block', into which the drill motor, thermal cup and impact accelerometer were embedded was simply aluminium alloy.
The aftbody was made from magnesium and titanium alloys. Its shape was driven by the mass distribution constraints, together with the required penetration performance. In particular, at higher angles of attack, the aftbody had a tendency to 'bounce' (more correctly, some rolling was involved) off the target.
Figure 25.5. The extreme level of miniaturization applied is evident in this photograph of the forebody microcontroller. The bevel gear for the sample drill is visible at the top left.
Introduction of tines on the front face of the aftbody helped to alleviate this tendency.
Small steel wires ('whiskers') were added to the titanium antenna to improve radiated signal performance (acting in effect as a longer antenna), while remaining robust to impact. The antenna survival was demonstrated by firing a probe backwards through a sample of the aft shield.
The heat shield, to which the probe was attached via three titanium fixtures, was of a very novel design. The structural stiffness was provided by an inner shell made from 0.8 mm thick silicon-carbide ceramic. The outer thermal-protection layer was a porous silica-rich layer called SIRCA-SPLIT (silicone impregnated reusable ceramic ablator-secondary polymer layer-impregnated technique). This thermal protection material was 1 cm thick at the nose. The backshell (hemispherical, so pressure forces during entry act through the centre of mass and do not apply torques) was made from FRCI (fibrous refractory composite insulation). While stiff, this structure was brittle, requiring careful ground handling. The brittleness was by design, in that the shell would shatter on impact without impeding the penetration.
The umbilical cable was folded as a concertinaed ribbon. The flat cable was made by depositing conductive traces on a Kapton substrate. Originally, the umbilical was to be 2 m long. Concern arose that the cable should be shielded from electrical transients, and so a deposited metallic shield was attempted. This shield layer turned out to be quite brittle and stiff (Arakaki and D'Agostino, 1999), such that the cable required a larger storage volume. This problem led to a descope of the cable to a shorter length, supported by the fact that the fore-aftbody separation in tests exceeded one metre in only two out of around fifty tests. In the event, the brittleness difficulties led the cable to not have a shield after all. The umbilical technology used in principle also allows electronic components to be installed on the same substrate (in fact many modern consumer electronic items such as CD players incorporate circuits built on flexible substrates) - a prime example being temperature sensors, so that heat flow measurements could be performed.
The batteries had very tight requirements. First was the ability to provide useful current even at temperatures of -78 °C (where many electrolytes are frozen, and the diffusion of ions in any electrolyte is slowed). The second driving requirement was the ability to tolerate 80 000 g loads at impact after a 3-year shelf life. Specially developed half-D cells by Yardney used lithium thionyl chloride. These cells presented some safety concerns in that if damaged (e.g. by short circuits induced by impact deformation) they could explode, and ordinary alkaline batteries were used during impact tests. The batteries provided for a 6 W-hr energy budget, giving an expected lifetime of 1-3 days, the low temperature and possible damage to some cells on impact being likely limiting factors.
The communications at UHF (with an RF power of only —300 mW) permitted 7 kbps during a typical pass of MGS, which would last a little over 10 minutes. At the high latitude landing site, the polar-orbiting MGS would make several high passes per day. The receiver would detect the presence of a query tone transmitted from the orbiter (the tone frequency identifying which of the probes was to transmit) which would trigger the microprobe to transmit its data.
The DS-2 microprobes were installed on the Mars Polar Lander at KSC, and launched on 3 January 1999 on a Delta 7425. After a nominal cruise, during which there was no communication with DS-2, the commands to separate MPL from its cruise stage, and to deploy the DS-2 probes, were executed. Nothing further was heard from either MPL or the DS-2 probes.
There was never an end-to-end test of the DS-2 probes during which all systems were operated together, fired into the ground and demonstrated to operate thereafter. There was similarly no end-to-end test of the communications system, which relied on the Mars Balloon Relay on the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. This French-supplied relay system was installed originally to support operation of a balloon to be carried on the Russian Mars-96 mission. The DS-2 communications hardware itself was delivered quite late and so was not extensively tested prior to launch.
Although the detailed failure investigation favoured separate problems, the simultaneous loss of MPL and DS-2 suggests a common failure mode. Although dual initiators are installed on the separation system, extreme temperatures or an undiscovered software error could still have prevented separation. Another common mode could be attributed to Mars itself, if the terrain were too soft or rough.
The failure mode favoured (e.g. Harland and Lorenz, 2005) for MPL is that a sensor transient when the landing legs locked into place may have been interpreted by the on-board computer as an indication of contact with the ground. This problem would have been detected in a ground test, had not an unrelated problem (subsequently fixed) occurred in that test. 'Thinking' it had landed, the vehicle would have shut down the descent engines at an altitude of above 50 m, and would have crashed onto the ground.
While perfectly plausible, this scenario does not account for the loss of both DS-2 probes. Possible failure modes include failure of the radio transmitters or batteries, perhaps by hitting rocks. Very soft terrain is another hazard, if the aftbody bearing the communications antenna were buried so deeply that the radio signals from the probes were attenuated.
Some months after the MPL/DS-2 loss, images from the Mars Global Surveyor discovered features that may indicate seepage and flow from subsurface aquifers, around 100-200 m below the ground. It was noted cynically by some science team members that the umbilical system had not been tested underwater - it would be ironic indeed if the microprobes' quest for water on Mars were fatally successful.
Whatever the technical causes of failure, the programmatic causes are all too clear - a rushed schedule, changing goals and inadequate testing.
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DRIPPING SPRINGS, TX (WTXF) - Dripping Springs High School is making headlines after their homecoming celebration Friday evening.
Bailey Kay Hutson, a senior with spina bifida, was crowned homecoming queen, while homecoming king was awarded to Brandon Neffendorf, a teen with cerebral palsy.
The pair happily posed for photos on their high school's football field, while their classmates celebrated with them.
"What an honor just to be nominated," said Jenifer Neffendorf, Brandon's mother. "And now to win, what an honor."
According to People Magazine, Bailey's homecoming campaign was organized by her best friend Chloe Holmes.
Holmes nominated Bailey as a way to cheer her up during one of her recent hospitalizations.
Bailey's mother, Christy Hutson, said that when her daughter was born doctor's said she wouldn't make it past birth.
"She's had 50 surgeries," Christy said. "Lots and lots of hospitalizations."
But Bailey has big dreams. She recently started a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to raise money to build a center for special needs children.
"I want to build a facility for kids like me to get out of the hospital and take their mind off their daily struggles," said the inspiring 17-year-old.
Amidst the celebrations Bailey has stayed incredibly humble, saying that all in all, it's not about winning.
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Total Buys Maersk Oil for $4.95 Billion
By Dominic ChoppingDow Jones Newswires
Total SA has agreed to acquire Danish conglomerate A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S's Maersk Oil unit for $4.95 billion, concluding a review process that started over a year ago as the group looked to combat one of the worst shipping downturns and a historic oil-price rout.
In statements Monday, the companies said Total will also assume $2.5 billion of Maersk Oil's debt. Under the deal, Maersk will retain an interest in the sector by receiving 97.5 million shares in the French energy group, equal to approximately 3.76% of Total.
Total will take over all decommissioning obligations currently amounting to $2.9 billion and will maintain Maersk Oil's position in the North Sea with strong Copenhagen and Esbjerg bases. Denmark will be the operating hub for Total's combined operations in Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands.
Maersk Oil last week reported a $191 million second-quarter net profit on revenue of $1.37 billion.
Write to Dominic Chopping at dominic.chopping@wsj.com
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August 21, 2017 03:43 ET (07:43 GMT)
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Surveillance footage shows attack on bus driver thwarted by cane-wielding Good Samaritan
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (FOX News) - City officials in Kansas City said a bus never made it to its next bus stop because one of its riders started acting strange and then attacked the woman driving the bus.
A senior citizen stepped in and began hitting the bus driver's assailant with his cane.
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Surveillance footage shows the attack happening near 35th and Troost. The attacker can be seen approaching the bus driver and harassing her.
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June 28, 2017 – Alerts Privacy & Data Security Alert By Mark G. McCreary, CIPP/US
Yesterday's worldwide cyberattack once again exploited a vulnerability that has been known to experts for many months. These attacks are sure to continue and the best defense is knowledge. Awareness of how malware works and employee training to avoid the human error that may trigger an infection can prevent your organization from becoming a victim.
This latest ransomware variant, referred to as “Petya,” is similar in many respects to the “WannaCry” ransomware that affected hundreds of thousands of computers in mid-May, using the same Eternal Blue exploit to infect computers. The purpose of this Alert is to provide you some information believed or known at this time.
How Is a Computer Infected?
Experts believe the Petya malware is delivered in a Word document attached to an email. Once initiated by opening the Microsoft Word document, an unprotected computer becomes infected and the entire hard drive on that computer is encrypted by the program. This is notably different from WannaCry, which encrypted only files.
Once Petya is initiated, it begins seeking other unprotected computers in the same network to infect. It is not necessary to open the infected Microsoft Word document on each computer. An infection can occur by the malware spreading through a network environment.
Which Computers Are Unprotected?
We learned with the WannaCry ransomware that there is a vulnerability with some versions of Microsoft Windows. Despite the availability of a patch from Microsoft a few months before WannaCry happened, many organizations and users ignored, skipped, or had not fully tested and deployed that patch. Computers that were patched were safe from the malware.
Despite the unprecedented exposure and panic caused by WannaCry, not all organizations and users updated their computers. Surely, some organizations are still testing the patch before deploying, and no doubt some computers or servers simply cannot be patched because software essential to the business is outdated and would not run after the update. Whatever the reason, if the update did not occur, those computers and servers remain susceptible to future attacks using the same exploit as WannaCry.
Petya affected only those computers that continued to remain unpatched following WannaCry. Using the same Eternal Blue exploit, Petya took advantage of the vulnerability that remained on those unpatched computers.
What Happens if a Computer Is Infected?
The hard drive on a computer infected with Petya will become fully encrypted. An infected computer will not be usable in this state. A message will pop up on the computer informing you of the encryption and instructions on how to have the hard drive decrypted, similar to the following:
What Should I Do if a Computer Is Encrypted?
You should seek professional help. If the computer is one for which you have a back-up or can lose the data, you may be able to replace the computer or the hard drive. You should contact an IT consultant to ensure you are not restoring from a back-up that has the malware embedded.
If you are on a network environment, you should immediately contact an IT consultant for advice on possibly taking the network offline and ensuring no other computers are infected. You should not assume that the infection stopped with one computer if that computer was in a networked environment.
In addition to bringing in your IT professionals that are familiar with this type of attack (which may not be your day-to-day professionals), you should contact your insurance broker to determine if you have any applicable coverage and to put your insurance carrier on notice. You should also contact your data breach legal counsel to determine if there are any reporting requirements or other legal obligations as a result of the attack.
Recent reports indicate that paying the ransom may be pointless because the host for the email address necessary to report the payment has been disabled by the ISP. It is possible this may change as pressure from victims now with little or no hope of decryption intensifies.
What Should I Do To Minimize the Risks of Future Attacks
If your computers and servers are not fully patched, that should be your priority. Patches and updates should be rolled out regularly, especially those that are security related.
If not already in place, you should consider a best-in-class service that will scan emails for threats, an URL-checking service that will ensure all known “black listed” URLs clicked in emails are not successful, and run a state-of-the-art anti-virus solution (which may not be the off-the-shelf solution you have now).
Finally, and just as important as any of the above, you have to train your employees about these risks, what they look like, how they occur, how they can be avoided, and the damage that an attack can have on an organization. Stated differently, your organization can do amazing things with computer and network security, but if your employees are not well trained it can all be for naught.
For information on the steps necessary to make your organization safer, or for training for your employees on cyber safety, please contact Fox Rothschild Partner and Chief Privacy Officer Mark G. McCreary at 215.299.2010 or [email protected] or any member of the firm’s Privacy and Data Security Practice.
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North East Reservoir 19 July 2016
Liza from AFW contacted GEOTEC Surveys Limited to discuss different geophysical survey techniques that would be most suitable for the purpose of finding voids beneath a reinforced concrete structure.
The concrete structure related to the floor of an enclosed Service Reservoir in the North East as shown below.
The request was made following the discovery of voiding and structural collapse within a nearby reservoir which led to water escape.
We therefore worked with AFW to ascertain the thickness of the concrete floor, which was indicated at 300mm and the level of reinforcing, which comprised mesh in the top and bottom of the slab, approximately 100mm apart.
The concrete was also thicker around the columns with denser reinforcement.
In consideration of the limitations and site constraints and following an evaluation of other geophysical techniques that GEOTEC adopts, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) was deemed the most appropriate way forward.
Given that the site was an enclosed reservoir, the main contractor, carrying out the maintenance works which included resealing of joints, managed the confined spaces entry element of the project as access into the reservoir was through a large service hatch / manhole cover.
As such our surveyors had to be Confined Spaces Trained and due to the site being a clean water site, they also held EUSR National Water Hygiene.
In addition the reservoir had to be drained and then cleaned on completion which meant that our site attendance also had to fit into the main contractor’s programme of works.
As part of our discussions, we offered the client the option of aborting the survey should our surveyors feel that data quality was too poor to carry on once we had commenced, given the limitations and constraints that we could potentially encounter. This provided them with a level of comfort and peace of mind prior to any surveying taking place.
In order to achieve our objective, we undertook the survey using 2x trolley-mounted Ground Penetrating Radar systems each fitted with a 400MHz Antenna, designed to search to a depth of approximately 2m below the ground surface.
Our findings were then overlaid onto a topographical survey drawing produced by our surveyor’s onsite.
The operatives were very professional in their duties and during an issue with a gas alarm they followed the correct evacuation procedure.
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Our instincts were correct and the geophysical data collected over the site was of a good quality.
Although the reinforcing within the concrete did have an effect on some of the data collected, this was not considered sufficient enough to impact upon the processing of the results.
During the data interpretation no anomalies were detected and the radar data was consistent with the already known features such as the upper and lower reinforcing within the flooring.
The radar gram below indicates a sample of the scans taken from within the reservoir which shows the reinforcing within the floor and the consistency of the ground below.
Example of Radar Data Collected
We concluded that there did not appear to be any areas of differing density or conductivity within and below the subsurface of the reservoir floor.
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Whilst reports discuss the economic effect on Brazil and the expected upturn in the UK economy based on how much people spend at World Cup time hosting BBQ's, in pubs & bars and on flags, replica shirts (although not at £90 a pop) and silly hats, how does this effect UK Construction Industry Productivity?
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Any literal shepherd tasked with feeding and leading a flock of lambs would be thought deranged if he regarded wolves as potential pets to be domesticated and amalgamated into the fold. Suppose he actively sought and tried to befriend young wolves, presuming he could teach them to mingle with his sheep—insisting against all wise counsel that his experiment might succeed, and if it does, that the wolves will acquire the sheep’s gentleness and the sheep will learn beneficial things from the wolves. Such a shepherd would be worse than useless; he himself would pose an extreme danger to the flock.
Nearly as bad would be a shepherd whose vision is myopic. He has never seen a wolf clearly with his own eyes. He therefore believes the threat of wolves is grossly exaggerated. Even though his sheep keep disappearing or getting torn to shreds by something, he refuses to believe that wolves are the ones harming his flock. He declares he is tired of hearing shrill wolf warnings from others. Finally concluding that people’s “negativity” toward wolves poses a greater danger to his flock than the wolves themselves, he takes out his reed and plays a gentle tune to lull the lambs to sleep.
Then, of course, there is the “hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep” (John 10:12). He “sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep” (John 10:12–13, NKJV).
Self-seeking hirelings, myopic shepherds, and wannabe wolf tamers are all too prevalent in the church today. So are wolves in sheep’s clothing. Frankly, some of the postmodern lamb’s-wool costumes aren’t even the least bit convincing. But some pastors seem to have no hesitancy about unleashing these eager, disguised wolves among their flocks. Many are like the near sighted shepherd in my parable—convinced that warnings about the threat of wolves are potentially more dangerous than actual wolves.
That attitude exposes a cavalier disregard for the repeated warnings of Christ (Matthew 7:15-20) and His apostles (Acts 20:29-31; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 2 Peter 2:1-3:7; 1 John 2:18-19; 4:1-3). By ignoring Jude’s exhortation to “contend earnestly for the faith” (Jude 3), many negligent shepherds have opened wide the door of the church to the dangerous influence of false teachers.
In fact Jude’s entire letter is devoted to warning his readers about the presence of apostate false teachers and the severe spiritual danger they represent. He wanted his readers to stand strong against the spiritual deceptions that threatened to wreak havoc in their fellowship. And he also wanted all who propagated such errors in the church to be exposed and expelled.
Like any true shepherd, Jude had a deep love for his readers—meaning that he was dedicated to their spiritual well-being. His appeal stressed the need to defend the truth continually and vigorously.
“The faith” Jude urges his readers to defend is not some nebulous body of religious doctrines. Rather, it constitutes the Christian faith, the faith of the gospel, God’s objective truth—basically everything that relates to “our common salvation” (Jude 3). It is what Luke wrote about in Acts 2:42, noting that the early believers “were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching” (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4). In the same way, Paul admonished Timothy to protect the faith.
Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. (2 Timothy 1:13-14)
In life and in ministry, God’s truth is paramount (cf. Psalm 25:10; 119:160; John 8:32; 2 Corinthians 13:8; 2 Timothy 2:15). To manipulate and distort that truth, or to mix it with error, is to invite God’s eternal wrath. That’s why Paul told the Galatians, “If any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!” (Galatians 1:9). And the apostle John told his readers:
Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds. (2 John 9-11)
Far from engaging or accommodating false teachers, the clear duty of every church leader is to guard the truth from the deadly, corrupting influence of heretics, liars, and charlatans. A godly shepherd faithfully protects the sheep; he doesn’t dance with the wolves.
(Adapted from The Jesus You Can’t Ignore and The MacArthur New Testament Commentary: 2 Peter & Jude.)
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Lego Ideas' 10th Anniversary Vote Gives Old Rejects a New Chance at Life
The great thing about Lego Ideas is that fans get to have their say on which fan-submitted Lego models they'd like to see made, but the downside is that only a small handful of them ever do. It's rare that the selection committee picks more than two, and even then they usually just pick one. But Ideas' 10th anniversary has just been and gone, and to celebrate Lego is letting fans choose an old reject and give it a new chance at life.
Four sets have been chosen, all of which gained the necessary 10,000 votes needed to make it to the selection committee. Why only four? Who can say, but the sets in question are the International Space Station, a giant Lego Stitch (from Lilo and Stitch), miniature Sega arcade machines, and a grisly visage of a Lego torso being ripped open and spilling his yellow brick guts all over the place. Obviously we didn't pick that one, and I think the ISS would look just lovely next to the Saturn V rocket.
You only get one vote, and voting is open from today until 2pm (BST) 4th June, so that doesn't give you very much time to make a decision. Thankfully we don't have to wait as long as we do with typical Lego Ideas selection, and the winner will be announced on 4th June ready for release sometime next year. Naturally that means the designer behind the winning design gets all the same goodies as those who've seen their sets developed in the past.
You can head over to the Lego ideas website right now, and cast your vote. Sadly we don't get to see who has how many votes until the winner is announced.
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H.R. 2902: Maternal CARE Act
How well do you know H.R. 2902? Use this study guide to find out.
You can find answers to most of the questions below here on GovTrack.us, including on the overview, details, and text tabs for this bill at the top of this page.
What would this bill do?
In a few words, what would you say is the subject of this bill?
This question is asking you to determine what areas of policy this bill is meant to impact. Doing so is an important first step in analyzing the intentions behind the policy and its possible effects. To start, look at the bill’s title and see if it helps.
At the top of the details tab, you can find the committee assignments of this bill. Those will likely give a clue about the substance of the policy in the bill, as committees usually only look at bills within a certain jurisdiction.
The Library of Congress provides us with bill subject areas listed at the bottom of the details tab. When in doubt, refer to these.
The text of this bill is 11 pages long. What strategies could you use to learn about the bill without having to read it all?
Even if you’re a lawyer, this bill is probably too long to be worth reading. It might not even be possible. Here are a few suggestions for understanding the bill without reading the whole thing:
Someone has made a statement about this bill, which you can find in the position statements section under the overview tab. Member statements can be useful for analyzing a bill. Just keep in mind they have a stake in the game.
Who is this bill likely to impact? Is this bill important?
These questions are related. Be sure to answer the first question before you answer the second. Even if you think this bill looks boring, is there anyone who would say otherwise?
Participating in a democracy isn’t just about representing your own interests; it’s also about understanding and empathizing with the interests of your peers. When you look at a bill before Congress you should consider who it will impact and how. Then you can make a judgment about whether the bill matters and whether you support it.
Try coming up with a list of who will be affected by this bill and how. When you think you’re done with your list, ask yourself one more time: Is this bill important?
What else do you know about this bill?
What do you know about the sponsor? Is this the kind of bill you would expect from them? Why or why not?
The bill’s primary sponsor is displayed at the top of the overview tab. The sponsor's GovTrack page provides information about their history and recent actions in Congress. Similarly, you’ll find a list of cosponsors at the top of the details tab.
The most immediate thing you might notice about the sponsor is their party. Here are some other factors to consider when thinking about the bill’s sponsor, all of which can be found on the sponsor’s page:
Where do they represent? Is this bill uniquely important to the sponsor’s constituents?
What committees are they on? If they are on a committee this bill was assigned to, they will have greater influence over its passage.
Where do they fall on the GovTrack Ideology-Leadership Chart? We publish an analysis of members’ cosponsorships to give an idea of where each member falls on the political spectrum, and how much influence they have in Congress. This information could be helpful context for understanding the bill.
These are only a few of the factors at play when a member chooses to sponsor legislation. What wasn’t on this list that should be?
Some Members of Congress have made statements about this bill. What do those statements tell you about the bill? Do the statements agree about what the bill would do?
One way to learn more about a bill is to look at what members of Congress say about it. You can find press releases about this bill made by members of Congress in the position statements section of the overview tab, or at ProPublica Represent.
When a member makes a press release about a bill they signal that the bill is important, and often include their argument in support or opposition of it. Understanding those arguments is informative for understanding the bill itself.
Step away from GovTrack for a moment. Is anyone talking about this bill? How does their perspective help you understand the bill?
It’s important to compare information from various sources. What other resources could you use to put the information on GovTrack into context? Has anyone else written about the bill? Try putting the name of the bill into your favorite search engine to see what comes up. You might find there is already a conversation going on around the bill, or perhaps this bill isn’t getting much attention.
If you can, you should look at multiple sources with varying perspectives. Don’t take what any news article or organization says for granted without comparing it to a few other sources.
What kind of expert would be able to tell you more about the policies this bill would impact?
Congress often calls in expert witnesses to explain nuanced policy issues. Members of Congress on whichever committee has been assigned to review the bill will seek out these experts depending on the legislative topic. For example, legislation about nuclear power plants might be referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Since most of the representatives who serve on that committee are likely not nuclear scientist, they will call in those scientists to explain important details about nuclear energy.
By now you should have an idea of the policies, or at least areas of policy, in this bill. Given that knowledge, what type of experts would you want to hear from to learn more about this bill? Try to get as specific as you can.
What can you do about this bill?
How can you impact your government?
Start with the basics. What are some of the tools available for Americans to interact with their government? How would you apply those tools to this bill?
Keep in mind that bills sometimes get reintroduced to multiple sessions of Congress before ever getting a vote. Odds are good that a given bill won’t get passed, but maybe there are ways you can help give it another shot. If you think this bill is not likely to pass in the current session of Congress, how might you try to get it reintroduced in the next one?
What can your Member of Congress do to impact this bill? (Hint: Are your representative or senators on a committee this bill was assigned to?)
In our representative democracy, each member of Congress has an obligation to their constituents. That means your representatives are the most likely to be responsive to your concerns, since they care about your vote. What can you ask of them?
At a minimum, they can vote for a bill if the chance comes up. But maybe they have more power than that. Is your representative on a committee this bill was assigned to? If so, they can push for the bill to get a floor vote. Is your representative in a leadership position? Maybe they can trade favors with another Member of Congress to help advance this bill.
If you aren’t sure who your representatives are, you can find them by entering your address here. Then try looking at their GovTrack pages to see information such as their committee positions, leadership scores, and frequent cosponsors to get a sense of what they can do.
What organizations are working to impact the passage of this bill?
The best way to impact a bill is to get help. It’s nigh impossible for one person to make a significant change in a democracy, but as a group you can make a difference. Advocacy organizations, think tanks, caucuses and other legislative stakeholders are constantly working to influence whether a bill passes. Are there any organizations interested in this bill? Try using your favorite search engine to find out.
If there are, and you agree with their positions and methods, you may want to join or support that organization. You can help that organization accomplish its goals by volunteering for them or donating some money.
If there isn’t an organization you like, maybe you need to do the next best thing: Make one! Grassroots movements form all the time when many people care about an issue that isn’t getting enough attention. Do you know many other people who care as much about this bill as you do? Starting a grassroots movement is a challenging task, but if there are a lot of people who care about this issue who aren’t being heard, it can be worth the effort.
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Sedgwick County sheriff held in Weld County Jail after being accused of sexually assaulting inmate
Crime | August 26, 2016
Sedgwick County Sheriff Tom Hanna, 43, was taken into custody Tuesday at his office, and bail was set at $250,000. (Photo courtesy of Denver 7)
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DENVER — A sheriff in rural Colorado was arrested after being accused of taking a developmentally delayed inmate to his home, sexually assaulting her and threatening to put her in prison for the rest of her life if she told anyone, according to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday.
Sedgwick County Sheriff Tom Hanna, 43, was taken into custody Tuesday at his office, and bail was set at $250,000. He has not been formally charged, and it is unclear if he has hired an attorney.
Originally, Hanna was held in the Logan County Jail, however, he has since been moved to the Weld County Jail because of concerns for his safety, since many suspects Hanna’s force arrested are in the Logan County facility, Tribune media partner Denver 7 reported.
Jeff Huston, an investigator with the district attorney’s office, wrote in the affidavit that the inmate told him that Hanna offered to pay her $60, forced her to strip and sexually assaulted her after taking her to his home in his personal vehicle on Aug. 10.
“He told me if I say anything, he was going to try and put me in prison. … I felt like I was raped, to be honest and this has bothered me a lot and it feels good to get it out because I’m telling the truth,” the inmate said, according to the affidavit. Her name had been redacted from the document.
Huston described the woman as timid and having a hard time organizing her thoughts during the interview.
The investigator said the sheriff denied the allegations and explained that he was interviewing the inmate after she reported having information on her cellphone about a crime.
Hanna acknowledged making a mistake when he took her to his home, Huston said in the document.
The sheriff later dropped off the inmate at a jail in neighboring Logan County and put $20 on her commissary tab because he said he has a big heart and wanted to make sure she could call her brother, according to the affidavit.
Sedgwick County contracts with jails in other counties because it is unable to house long-term inmates.
Dottie Woltemath, a victim advocate for the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, described the inmate as developmentally delayed, according to the affidavit. She did not elaborate.
The inmate described herself as suffering from malnutrition as a child and saying “her brain is like a kids” in the affidavit.
The allegations came to the attention of prosecutors after a Sedgwick County deputy raised concerns about the sheriff’s interaction with the woman. District Attorney Brittny Lewton told The Denver Post on Wednesday that she plans to review all the cases Hanna investigated.
Hanna, who could face eight years to life in prison if he is convicted, is due back in court Sept. 16.
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler has been appointed as a special prosecutor in the case. His office plans to formally charge Hanna with sexual assault of an at-risk adult, sexual conduct with a correctional inmate, official misconduct and solicitation of prostitution.
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For my birthday, I was to be blessed by a wooden phallus once owned by the Divine Madman, also known as the Saint of Five Thousand Women
In Bhutan, when an Indian colleague wanted to take me for a phallic blessing on my birthday, I thought it was another of his jokes on the newcomer. But he claimed that there was a wooden phallus in a monastery about five kilometres away, below Metshina, which many local people visited to be blessed by it. The phallus was said to belong to Drukpa Kunley, a legendary maverick fifteenth-century saint of Bhutan. He was born in western Tibet, trained as a monk, then renounced his robes and headed down the dharma trail with his dog, Sachi. They travelled through western Bhutan, Tibet and Sikkim. Kunley recited bawdy poetry and songs, and spontaneously taught lessons of spiritual life in exchange for chhaang (homemade beer) and sexual favours from women. For this he became known as “the Saint of Five Thousand Women.” My Indian friend said that Kunley’s monastery, Chimi Lhakhang, was built in 1499 on a hill overlooking two valleys—on the spot where Kunley, also known as the Divine Madman, supposedly subdued the demoness of Dochu La with his “flaming thunderbolt of wisdom.”
The next day as Tshering, a young driver, was taking me to the hotel outside town where I taught meditation, he asked what I’d been doing lately. I told him I would soon be going to the lhakhang to be blessed by Drukpa Kunley’s phallus on my birthday. “Oh, good for luck, sir,” he said. As we drove past a large, colourful phallus painted on the whitewashed wall of a traditional house, he exclaimed, “Drukpa Kunley!” I had noticed the ubiquitous paintings of spurting penises ever since I had arrived in Bhutan, but I had been told only that they were “for luck” or “to ward off the evil eye” or “for protection” or “so there will be no quarrels inside.”
“Drukpa Kunley, of course,” said Tshering. “And the wooden ones, same. My friend sent to me a wooden penis. When I opened the box, I was surprised and embarrassed. It was so real looking that my face went red.” He laughed. “Then I knew it was a good one. I got the blessing.”
The blush was part of the blessing. That is why atsaras (clowns) at certain dances waved wooden phalluses at the girls and women, and they pretended to be embarrassed. “The clowns are naughty monks,” he said.
My Indian friend and I drove as far as we could, then walked from the road to the Chimi temple along a trail that crossed terraced rice paddies and meandered through a small farming settlement, most of whose houses were decorated with spurting phalluses. On top of a hill, with a stunning view of two broad river valleys, the little golden-roofed monastery sat enclosed by a wall with prayer wheels. We passed through the ornate gate, found the main shrine room and asked if we might enter. The door was unlocked for us and we removed our shoes. Then we were taken inside the dark, sooty room by a slightly bored tulku, a young monk, who appeared to be about eight years old. He didn’t speak English. He directed us to the altar, where we placed our offerings of oil and incense. A statue of Drukpa Kunley in full bloom also served as a large butter lamp holder.
The boy signalled us and took up a clumsy, loosely wrapped bundle. We stepped forward and he bonked us both on the head with the bundle, which turned out to contain five-hundred-year-old relics: a painted wooden phallus with ivory inlay, an iron bow with several old arrows and a brownish thigh bone carved into (what else?) a phallus shape. All is said to have belonged to Drukpa Kunley. We accepted the blessings and left a donation. We also left a bar of chocolate for the young monk, which made him smile for the first time since we had come.
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Mike Daly* argues that professional validation, far from being a straitjacket, fosters creative responses.
“Events dear boy, events” was reputedly Harold Macmillan’s reply to a journalist’s question about what is most likely to throw governments off course. This doesn't just apply to governments; individuals also experience events. Life has a habit of throwing them up - when we least expect them. It is then that we realise the importance of support from friends, colleagues and institutions. We also face the reality of how well we have developed ourselves to deal with the environment in which we operate, and the threats it sometimes presents.
It is not a coincidence that these two key characteristics are at the core of being a Chartered Geologist (CGeol). Professional support and recognition throughout a career provide the validation that sustains us. That support is conditional on continued professional development that keeps us abreast of changes, both inside and outwith our science.
Reflecting on my own career, I spent my first 10 years as a field geologist in Africa. I loved the individuality and productivity of that role. But with time, I realised that I was learning a lot about Africa but becoming detached from the geoscience that had led me there. A friend drew me back to British academia, ultimately equipping me for a role as a structural geologist and, later, an executive in BP. This was crucial early-career validation and a very deep dive in continued professional development. I wasn't a CGeol, but inadvertently I followed the path laid out to become a CGeol today.
So why is being a CGeol debated so much in the UK, particularly by non-Engineering related geologists? Very thoughtful people argue that being a CGeol is a constraint on creativity, an unnecessary formality of little use to many geoscientists.
During my 40 years as an active geoscientist much has changed inside our science and in the technology that underpins it. Outside our science things have also changed, especially in the world of regulation, governance and legal compliance. This latter, complex and un-scientific world, envelops geoscientists whether they like it or not - scrutinising the integrity of the science they publish; the use of confidential data they hold, and the impact of the decisions they make.
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Such changes can be felt as intrusive, controlling and a constraint on creativity and risk-taking. However, the objective is not that. Rather, it is to ensure risk-taking and creativity happen in a context as full of knowledge and understanding of the potential consequences as possible. My industry, oil and gas, delights in stories of heroic risk-taking that came off. What it rarely speaks about are the failures that, in hindsight, could have been avoided. Such cases are often a failure of discipline and process, far more than the romantic notion of a geoscientist’s ‘gut feel’.
Similarly, the rigour of being a CGeol is not to constrain or stifle but rather to enable and support through professional validation and personal development. I believe that this is an increasingly essential component of being a geoscientist in 21st Century. In an ever more litigious world, powerful legal systems can be unable or unwilling to value experience; they require formal evidence of professional competence. The validation of being a CGeol provides that evidence. And having that CGeol status may one day give you crucial support when “events” come along to throw you off course.
* Mike Daly joined Tullow in 2014 as a non-executive director, after a 28-year career with BP, from which he retired as Head of Exploration in 2013.
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Inflammatory Response and Treatment-Resistant Mental Disorders: Should Immunotherapy Be Added to Pharmacotherapy?
Barbara J. Limandri, PhD, PMHNP, BC
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services. 2020;58(1):11-16
https://doi.org/10.3928/02793695-20191218-03
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Treatment resistance continues to challenge and frustrate mental health clinicians and provoke psychiatric researchers to seek additional explanatory theories for psychopathology. Because the inflammatory process activates symptoms of depression, anxiety, and psychosis, it is a reasonable route to follow for primary and/or indirect contribution to mental disorders. The current article reviews the research literature regarding the role the inflammatory process and immune system play in mental disorders as well as novel treatments under investigation for resistant depression, anxiety, substance use, and psychotic disorders. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 58(1), 11–16.]
Mental disorders remain high in resistance to treatment and burden of illness and disability worldwide (GBD 2016 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators, 2017). It is evident, therefore, that current treatments are adequate but insufficient. What contributes to persistence of symptoms and distress, even within advances in pharmacological and psychosocial treatments? Our theories of mental disorders focus on psychosocial and environmental causation and neurophysiological dysfunctions; however, these theories leave many gaps to sufficiently guide care in alleviating symptoms.
The field of psychoneuroimmunology began in the 1970s and research has slowly entered into clinical practice. The monoamine theory, upon which most pharmacological treatments are based, fails to incorporate additional neural pathways including glutamate and gamma aminobutyric acid. More recently, inflammatory process has been posited as an explanation for upstream events that indirectly contribute to neuroimmunological dysfunction that can lead to mental disorders (Najjar, Pearlman, Alper, Najjar, & Devinsky, 2013). Specifically, inflammation leads to oxidative stress that contributes to glutamatergic and monoamine neurotransmitter dysfunction (Radtke, Chapman, Hall, & Syed, 2017).
Overview of the Inflammatory Process
Stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system activates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to release glucocorticoids that modulate the peripheral immune response. Chronic stress alters sympathetic nerve fibers, increasing hematopoietic stem cell proliferation and the release of inflammatory monocytes and neutrophils. Neutrophils under chronic stress resist the anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids (Najjar et al., 2013). Underlying psychiatric disorders is a common mechanism of excitotoxicity in which there is an excessive release of glutamate that triggers the production of free radicals and oxidative stress. Oxidative stress contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death (Olloquequi et al., 2018). A free radical is an ion with unpaired valance; therefore, it is highly reactive and releases reactive oxygen species (ROS) that have beneficial and deleterious effects (i.e., excess formation of ROS damages monoamine receptors, yet they also destroy pathogens) (Olloquequi et al., 2018).
Microglia are one source of immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS). These cells regulate synaptic pruning, and like macrophages in the periphery, they rush to injury sites to clean up debris by means of microglial activation and proliferation (MAP). In postmortem studies of individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, the MAP is dysfunctional and increased in those who died by suicide (Radtke et al., 2017). Microglia secrete proinflammatory cytokines, promote cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression, glutamate release, and the secretion of prostaglandins. The prominent proinflammatory cytokines include interleukin-1β (IL-1β), IL-2, IL-6, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), and interferon gamma (IFN-γ). Ultimately, the inflammatory cytokines:
increase the expression of monoamine transporters, and thereby sabotage the serotonin reuptake inhibitors;
decrease monoamine precursors through activation of the breakdown of tryptophan into kynurenine;
decrease the availability of tetrahydrobiopterin needed as the rate limiting enzyme for the synthesis of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine;
inhibit neurogenesis; and
decrease the expression of glutamate transporters and increase glutamate release from astrocytes thereby contributing to excitotoxicity (Raison, Felger, et al., 2013).
Astroglia secrete anti-inflammatory cytokines that are neuroprotective. These cytokines facilitate healing and limit neuronal injury by promoting the anti-inflammatory cytokines of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, IL-4, IL-5, and IL-10. Curiously, regular mild physical exercise and meditation are associated with increased parasympathetic tone and anti-inflammation (Raison, Felger, & Miller, 2013). The pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines function on a seesaw with tryptophan metabolism at the pivot point (Figure 1). Tryptophan is metabolized into kynurenic acid, which is an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonism; quinolinic acid, which is an NMDA receptor agonist; and serotonin (Najjar et al., 2013). NMDA antagonist can lead to reduced glutamate, which contributes to schizophrenia. NMDA agonism can lead to excessive glutamate, which contributes to MDD, and breakdown in serotonin can also contribute to MDD.
Cytokine seesaw. Adapted from Najjar et al. (2013).
The blood brain barrier (BBB) effectively protects the brain from neurotoxins as long as the membrane remains intact. However, inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and bacterial translocation cause and accelerate BBB permeability placing the brain at risk for downstream effects. IL-1β also increases BBB permeability directly and indirectly by potentiating the effects of TNF-α (Morris et al., 2018). Proinflammatory cytokines can signal the CNS to activate microglia to secrete neurotoxins, such as nitrous oxide, COX-2, and quinolinic acid, resulting in detrimental effects on the integrity of the BBB. The downstream effect of damage to the BBB is compromised neural activity, especially glutamatergic neurotransmission (Morris et al., 2018).
Role of Inflammation in Mental Disorders
Epidemiological studies have identified activation of the maternal immune system as a possible precursor to many psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, and bipolar disorder. Maternal infections are risk factors for these disorders (Brown & Meyer, 2018). Infants and children who have been treated in intensive care units frequently show subsequent psychiatric symptoms that may be attributed to acute infections (Caspani et al., 2018). Autoimmune disorders, such as systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and autoimmune encephalitis, and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infection have been associated with psychiatric disorders, including depression and psychosis (Hamdani, Doukhan, Kurtlucan, Tamouza, & Leboyer, 2013; Leboyer, Oliveira, Tamouza, & Groc, 2016; Najjar et al., 2013). Several studies have identified inflammatory markers associated with schizophrenia (Hartwig, Borges, Horta, Bowden, & Davey Smith, 2017; Steullet et al., 2016), bipolar disorder (Hamdani et al., 2013; Marrie et al., 2017; Rosenblat, 2019), depressive disorders (Berk, Walker, & Nierenberg, 2019; Keaton et al., 2019; Li, Soczynska, & Kennedy, 2011), anxiety disorders (Belem da Silva et al., 2017; Hirschtritt, Bloch, & Mathews, 2017; Marrie et al., 2017; Walss-Bass, Suchting, Olvera, & Williamson, 2018), Alzheimer's disease (Shimasaki, 2016), and autism spectrum disorders (Brown & Meyer, 2018; Shimasaki, 2016). However, all of these studies need to be cautiously considered as the mechanisms involved in inflammation and the development of psychiatric symptoms is still unclear. It is difficult to pinpoint how inflammation contributes due to the indirect process and the multi-system involvement, especially as the inflammatory process presents upstream and downstream of symptom development. What is convincing is that inflammation is a significant contributor to development of psychiatric symptoms and that early and chronic stress, such as adverse childhood events, can activate the immune system in such a way that neurological changes occur at the cellular level.
Pharmacological Interventions
Given that there are clear biomarkers for neuroinflammatory response, what are some innovative approaches to guide treatment? Aspirin, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that irreversibly inhibits COX-1 and COX-2 and reduces levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), TNF-α, and IL-6, has been studied as an adjunctive treatment for depressive disorders and schizophrenia. However, adverse effects limit aspirin's utility, and results are contradictory (Berk et al., 2013; Çakici, van Beveren, Judge-Hundal, Koola, & Sommer, 2019; Cho et al., 2019; Glaus et al., 2015; Veronese et al., 2018). At this point, the evidence does not support the use of aspirin in treating schizophrenia or depression or preventing depression. Data from a large randomized controlled study among older adults show that aspirin may help prevent and reduce symptoms of depression in this population (Berk et al., 2016); however, the addition of aspirin to a complicated medication regimen may also invite drug interactions that counterbalance the benefits.
Celecoxib (Celebrex®), another COX-2 inhibitor, has shown promise in reducing depressive symptoms at 200 mg twice daily in combination with antidepressant agents (Akhondzadeh et al., 2009; Najjar et al., 2013). However, other studies showed little improvement in symptoms when combined with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (Alboni, Benatti, Capone, Tascedda, & Brunello, 2018; Fields, Drye, Vaidya, & Lyketsos, 2012; Medici et al., 2017). Lack of consistency in these results reflects heterogenicity in mental disorder categories as well as the difficulty in grasping contributory factors when the immune system is involved.
Minocycline (Dynacin®, Minocin®) (in dosages from 100 mg twice daily to 150 mg twice daily) as adjunctive treatment for schizophrenia, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder demonstrated significant reduction in positive and negative symptoms, decrease in depressive symptoms, and reduction in Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale scores (Dean, Data-Franco, Giorlando, & Berk, 2012; Murrough et al., 2018; Najjar et al., 2013). In a meta-analysis, however, efficacy of adjunctive minocycline in treating depression or bipolar depression could not be demonstrated (Zheng et al., 2019).
Monoclonal antibody technology has opened many doors to innovations in medical treatments directed at the immune system. Not surprisingly, monoclonal antibodies invite exploration in psychopharmacology. Infliximab (Remicade®) is used to treat autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and severe plaque psoriasis. This TNF-α inhibitor was used in a single-site, parallel-group, randomized, double-blind study for treatment-resistant depression and found to significantly reduce symptoms of anhedonia, depressed mood, psycho-motor retardation, anxiety, and suicidal ideation over a 4-week time period (Raison, Rutherford, et al., 2013). However, the placebo group also had reduced severity of symptoms. What distinguished the placebo from the treatment group was the baseline CRP level. Infliximab was more effective when baseline CRP was >5 mg/L, suggesting that effectiveness was related to severity of inflammation, and severity of inflammation may be a critical factor in treatment-resistant depression (Raison, Rutherford, et al., 2013).
Nutraceuticals have also been studied with particular focus on N-acetylcysteine (NAC), vitamins C and E, and omega-3 oils. Melatonin demonstrates broad anti-inflammatory effects and protective and restorative effects on the integrity of the BBB and is also a potent scavenger of free radicals. Melatonin's antioxidant properties help upregulate glutathione; however, studies failed to show robust effectiveness in treating depression and schizophrenia (Morris et al., 2018). Although all of these nutraceuticals showed some improvement in immune function, only NAC demonstrated consistent and significant efficacy in treating depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and cognitive function (Naguy, 2018; Natacci et al., 2018). NAC as an antioxidant precursor to glutathione shows promise in the treatment of substance use craving (Duailibi et al., 2017), bipolar depression (Berk et al., 2019), impaired cognition (Bortolato et al., 2016), and schizophrenia (Breier et al., 2018; Çakici et al., 2019; Cho et al., 2019). NAC scavenges oxidants directly to reduce the free radicals and penetrates the BBB to increase the levels of glutathione. By altering the glutathione levels in the brain, NAC modulates glutamate and dopamine. Further glutathione potentiates NMDA receptor response to glutamate and alters dopamine release (Dean, Giorlando, & Berk, 2011).
The research on substance use disorders and NAC is contradictory, with more robust results in reducing craving and reward behaviors in nicotine and marijuana use, especially with concurrent alcohol use; however, cocaine use shows limited effectiveness and the studies have small sample and effect sizes (Gray et al., 2017; Lebourgeois et al., 2018). The strongest evidence is in improved executive function and positive symptoms in schizophrenia by modulating glutamate in the anterior cingulate cortex (McQueen et al., 2018; Ooi, Green, & Pak, 2018). NAC is safe and well-tolerated and can be given with other medications in dosages between 2,000 and 2,400 mg per day (Ooi et al., 2018).
Summary and Tips for Practice
Based on these connections of the inflammatory process with psychiatric symptoms, it is tempting to add NSAIDs to off-label pharmacopeia; however, the research literature is still evolving and requires more replication. Minocycline and monoclonal antibodies in conjunction with conventional medications and treatments offer promise in bringing about full remission or at least significant improvement in symptoms of depression, psychosis, and anxiety. Furthermore, the use of NAC as a supplement to other treatments can improve outcomes for patients with these disorders. Some tips for the prudent psychiatric nurse are:
Include nutritional and exercise practices when assessing patient's responses to medication.
Consider supplementing the treatment regimen with NAC 2,000 to 2,400 mg daily for patients struggling with cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, nicotine, and alcohol cravings.
Although vitamins C and D fail to show consistent efficacy in treatment-resistant conditions, side effects are minimal and may provide relief for some patients with schizophrenia, mood and bipolar disorders, and attention disorders.
Melatonin in doses of 50 to 100 mg daily is needed to achieve anti-inflammatory effects; however, side effects at this dosage may outweigh its benefits.
In the near future, monoclonal antibodies, antibiotics, prebiotics, and probiotics may be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment-resistant mental disorders, but these treatment modalities have yet to receive such approval.
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Half-time: Europe ex-UK outperforms in H1
7 th August 2019
After a difficult end to 2018, European equity markets have powered back over the first six months of this year, buoyed by the dovish pivots of central banks. Against this backdrop, we ask: how has our Europe ex-UK fund fared so far this year, and what can we expect for the rest of 2019?
A tale of two quarters
After suffering a tumultuous fourth quarter last year, European equities rebounded in the first three months of the year as investors shrugged off Brexit-related uncertainties and softening economic data in the region.
In Q4, against a backdrop of increased volatility, many investors rotated towards ‘unloved’, low-growth companies, forgoing those that demonstrated high-growth potential.
But everything changed in the first three months of this year. US-China trade tensions eased (albeit temporarily), the US Federal Reserve (Fed) abandoned projections for further rate hikes this year, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang vowed to stick to the targeted economic support strategy and the European Central Bank (ECB) reassured investors that rates would “remain at their present levels at least through the first half of 2020.”1 As a result, European equity markets rebounded.
But volatility soon returned amid a re-escalation of the US-China trade dispute in May, which dominated the headlines for much of Q2.
Markets resumed their ascent following the dovish turn of the Fed and ECB at their monetary-policy meetings in June. Indeed, the move largely reflected the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China: at the time, ECB President Mario Draghi noted “downside risks to growth and inflation have now materialised”. In turn, risk appetite waned as markets fell and investors rotated to more defensive areas of the market.
As we reached the middle of the year, trade tensions between the US and China eased following a meeting between the countries’ leaders at the G20 summit in Japan. This provided further impetus for European equity markets.
Mid-way mark: strong performance in a challenging market
Against this backdrop, the Hermes Europe ex-UK fund enjoyed a strong performance in the first six months of the year. The F GBP Accumulating share class returned 20.37% net, outperforming the benchmark index by 246bps.
Figure 1: Europe ex-UK enjoyed a robust H1
Source: Hermes, Bloomberg, as at August 2019. Figures shown is the relative return of the Hermes Europe ex UK F accumulating GBP share class since December 2014, when Tim Crockford’s tenure as lead portfolio manager began. The growth compared to value shows the S&P Europe Large Cap Growth Total Return Index divided by the S&P Enhanced Value Europe Large Mid Cap Total Return Index. Past performance is not a reliable guide to future performance.
Stock selection was the key driver of this outperformance. That is because we take a bottom-up approach to investing, seeking to identify companies or industries that are undergoing longer-term structural change through our own independent research, around a framework of themes that help us identify disruption and change.
In the first half of the year, our outperformance was primarily driven by stock selection in the oil and gas, technology and utilities sectors as well as our overweight position in industrials and underweight position in financials. Conversely, stock selection in the basic-materials sector as well as our overweight position in oil and gas and underweight in consumer goods were the biggest detractors from the fund in H1.
At company level, the largest contributors to our outperformance included:
Satorius: the biopharma group reported forecast-beating Q1 results, driven by higher-than-expected margins in its bio-process and lab-products divisions;
Adidas: the sports clothing company enjoyed above-consensus earnings reflecting an increase in its gross margin and strong sales in Russia and Asia Pacific; and
ASM International: earnings also beat expectations with strong orders in foundry and logic that led to the company raising guidance for its Q2 sales.
Meanwhile, the biggest detractors were:
Umicore: the materials company released disappointing guidance for 2019 after there was lower-than-expected demand for cathode materials in China and South Korea;
Bankinter: the Spanish bank struggled on fears that lower-for-longer rates could continue to squeeze net interest margins; and
Ubisoft: the video-game firm reported disappointing sales of its ‘The Division 2’ game, while guidance for 2019 to 2020 was below expectations.
Figure 2: Europe ex-UK net returns since 2015
Source: Hermes, as at August 2019. Tim Crockford’s tenure as lead manager commenced on 1 January 2015. Performance shown is F GBP Acc Share Class. Relative returns calculated arithmetically. Returns in excess of one year are annualised.
Figure 2. Europe ex-UK fund: rolling performance (net)
30/06/2018 to 30/06/2019 30/06/2017 to 30/06/2018 30/06/2016 to 30/06/2017 30/06/2015 to 30/06/2016 30/06/2014 to 30/06/2015
3.86% 9.95% 33.28% 7.82% 4.13%
Source: Hermes, as at August 2019. UK F accumulating GBP share class. Performance shown is in GBP, net of fees. Past performance is not a reliable guide to future performance.
We take a long-term, high conviction approach to investing with a focus on unrecognised and enduring change. This approach ensures that stocks are only bought when we have clear insights into factors that will generate positive change in the business and which will persist over time. For that reason, portfolio activity tends to be low.
Earlier this year, we added Norwegian-listed recycling company Tomra to our portfolio. In 1972, Tomra created the first fully-automated reverse vending machine (RVM) – a machine where people can return empty drink containers, such as plastic bottles or aluminium cans, for recycling. Today, Tomra is the leading global provider of RVMs, with more than 82,000 installed across more than 60 markets.
Figure 3: What happens when a used drinks container is recycled?
Source: Tomra, as at August 2019.
We look for companies that are exposed to structural growth themes not yet reflected in street forecasts, which we believe will eventually lead to higher future cash returns. Tomra is one of these firms.
According to the World Bank, the world’s mounting waste pile is set to grow by 70% from its current levels to 2050. Plastic represents 12% of all solid waste, but only 14% of that is recycled. The topic burst into the public consciousness when the BBC documentary ‘Blue Planet II’ aired, piquing interest in plastics recycling. We think that Tomra should benefit from growing regulatory pressure to tackle the plastics problem.
Tomra’s sorting-solutions division also looks set to benefit from this trend as demand for recycling infrastructure increases. At present, recycling infrastructure in many countries is inadequate. For example, the EU has set a target for all plastic packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2030 – this will require a four-fold increase in recycling capacity.
We believe that Tomra’s market-leading position and its technological advantage provide a springboard for growth that is not reliant on a particular macro environment. We have met the company numerous times over the past 12 months and are convinced that its growth will accelerate as Western countries invest in recycling solutions.
Positioning for success
The fund’s overall positioning has remained broadly consistent over the past six months. The largest overweight positions are still in industrials, technology and oil and gas, while we have maintained our underweight stance in consumer goods, financials and consumer services.
Approximately 75% of the fund’s holdings have a thematic tilt and all its positions are held with conviction. This approach results in a portfolio with notably different stock weightings to those of the benchmark, creating a high active share.
Although the portfolio contains only 30-60 stocks at any one time, we do not rely on a handful of ‘best ideas’ and the fund has a relatively flat active-weight structure. This helps ensure the portfolio remains reasonably well diversified at the stock level, despite its high conviction, concentrated investment approach.
Beware short-term thinking
The potent cocktail of synchronised monetary easing and ongoing trade tensions mean that the valuation gap between quality growth and cyclical value companies continues to expand. The last time quality growth materially underperformed value was late 2016, in the context of synchronised global growth, rising inflation and tightening interest rates. All three factors are conspicuously absent today.
Our focus will now be on second-quarter earnings where we expect aggregate downgrades. This is unlikely to alter the style dichotomy, however. While poor earnings will elicit a market reaction, we are also aware that bourses generally value companies in a short-term and linear fashion. We will look beyond the noise and continue to search for firms that can deliver long-term growth to their shareholders.
Sceptics continue to write off Europe: there is an almost constant flow of investor funds away from the region. Despite European markets returning over 17% this year in euro terms, individual stocks and sectors remain volatile. Indeed, some areas – particularly the more cyclical ones – are very far from being expensive on anything greater than a one-year horizon. As we’ve said before, the time to worry is when investors are euphoric. That still looks a long way off in Europe.
The performance of the Fund may have some dependence on the economic environment of emerging markets, which may negatively affect the value of the fund.
It should be noted that any investments overseas may be affected by currency exchange rates.
This information does not constitute a solicitation or offer to any person to buy or sell any related securities or financial instruments.
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Iraqi PM orders investigation into drone attack on Hashd Sha’abi camp
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Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has ordered a probe into an attack by an unmanned aircraft on a base belonging to fighters from pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, in Salahuddin Province.
Abdul-Mahdi, also the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces, issued a directive “to form a fact-finding committee composed of the Joint Operations Command (JOC), representatives of the Air Force Command, Air Defense Command and Hashd al-Sha’abi to investigate what really happened at Martyrs Camp.”
Arabic-language al-Ahad TV television network reported on Friday that a drone had dropped explosives onto the base near the town of Amerli, located about 170 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad, in the early hours of the day, killing at last one PMU fighter and injuring four others.
Video footage broadcast by Iraqi channels showed a blaze burning at the site and plumes of thick smoke billowing. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Moreover, the Iraqi al-Etejah television network reported that an American B350 reconnaissance plane had flown over the area a few days earlier.
Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters played a major role in the liberation of Daesh-held areas to the south, northeast and north of Baghdad, ever since the terrorists launched an offensive in the country in June 2014.
Iraq has repeatedly condemned allegations of sectarian nature against the voluntary force.
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Video: Furry therapists – animal assisted therapy helps ‘hidden youth’ step back into society
By Fangdong Bai, Jane Leung, Sam Kwong, Jade Li, Kristy Tong
Socially withdrawn youth, also known as “hidden youth”, are young people who spend extended periods of time refusing to leave their homes or even their bedrooms. They shy away from school, from work and shun social interaction. The phenomenon was first observed in Japan among males in their early 20s, who are known as “Hikikomori.” In Hong Kong, one researcher has suggested that the prevalence of youth social withdrawal is around 1.9 percent.
Some social workers have found that animal-assisted therapy is an effective way of bringing these youngsters out of their shells. Animal-assisted therapy uses a combination of animal-human interactions and mainstream therapies to help socially withdrawn youth to relax and eventually step back into society.
Therapy animals – usually dogs and cats – seem to have a relaxing effect on people. But for the therapy to work, social workers and other humans play an important role. The social worker needs to understand the youth to gain his or her trust in order to introduce them to the therapy and the animal. The animal handler needs to have a good understanding of the temperament and history of the animal in order to make an appropriate match to maximize the effectiveness of the therapy and to protect the animal.
Photo: HKU.
Pets used as therapy animals should be calm during interactions with people, be sterilized, and be accustomed to being around different people. Not only must the animals be trained before they can enter the service, but their owners also have to learn how to train their animals.
There are a number of associations supporting animal-assisted therapy. The Hong Kong Animal Assisted Therapy Association focuses on promoting animal-assisted therapy and offers animal-assisted therapy to those who have relevant needs. Doctor Pet also promotes animal-assisted therapy in Hong Kong.
However, despite their track record for helping hidden youths, therapy animals are not recognized in the way guide dogs for the blind are. Public transport is a big problem for them. The therapy animals’ handlers cannot take the bus with their animals and taxi drivers sometimes refuse to take them. Animal-assisted therapy is still not widely known and understood among the general public.
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6 Key Facets Of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, 4th Edition
Let’s get one thing straight: I love Warhammer. I started with Warhammer 40,000 in my freshman year of high school, then was dragged into Warhammer Fantasy Battles before graduation. I left the hobby behind for years because I was broke (J/K! Still am!). As an adult I picked up roleplaying games. Needless to say, I was pretty stoked when I realized the newest edition of Warhammer Fantasy R
oleplay was in development and the game went to the top of my “must play” list, along with many others who are craving Old World action (RIP WFB). Now that the game is here, does it live it to the expectations and standards of 30 years of WFRP history?
Full disclosure: I was provided with a copy of the PDF for review purposes.
1) Combat
Combat in WFRP is quick, narrative, and brutal. Cubicle 7 managed to tweak the typically slow pace of combat that is usually found in BRP games by adding in the advantage system. Attack rolls are always opposed and the winner is determined by who rolls the furthest under (or least over!) their melee skill. If the attacker wins, they hit and gain a cumulative +10% on their combat rolls; if the defender wins, they gain advantage. Whoever loses the roll also loses advantage. It’s also totally possible to crit will losing a roll, even if you’re defending, or fumble while succeeding; something that appeals to the black comedy inherent in the setting.
It’s also pretty easy to knock characters down or kill them. In our second game, our party’s Apprentice Wizard lost half of his wounds to a single wolf bite. The following session, he was dropped to zero in two hits and nearly bled out. Thankfully PCs have resources at their disposal to keep themselves from dying on their first few adventures. Fate, fortune, resolve, and resilience allow PCs to avoid death, cancel out conditions like bleeding, prevent mutations (for now…) or possibly avoid the effects of critical hits. Crits don’t just do extra damage, they can maim or kill your character. You may not die, but have fun walking around without your left foot.
2) Careers
Careers have been in WFRP since the game began in the 1980s, but they’ve been reimagined for the new edition. Career paths have been unified (it’s now easier to make it from an Interrogator to Witchfinder General) and lumped together in classes, which is mostly arrangement by theme. The list of careers is broad and varied. It’s possible to play anything from a Rat Catcher to a Noble, River Warden to Investigator. The careers can lead to some interesting parties. If you choose randomly, something encouraged by the game through bonus experience, you can wind up with a party that has a Scholar, a Witch, a Witch Hunter, and a Servant. That’s pretty diverse, but it can lead to narrative issues. Why is a servant out adventuring? And let’s hope the Witch Hunter doesn’t find out about the Witch! Careers can be changed through spending experience, allowing players to make the characters they really want to play, and allowing them to pick up skills and talents they can’t advance through their current skills. GMs are also encouraged to change PC careers based on narrative. On the lam? Now you’re all Outlaws. Did the Wizard start messing with dark magic? I guess he’s a Witch now.
3) Status
Seeing as the setting is based on Renaissance Germany, it not terribly surprising to see class and status show up in the game. Status influences how much money you can earn between adventures (remember, they’re careers, not classes), and how you interact with others; it’s a bit tougher to for a beggar to intimidate a merchant than it would be for a noble. It feels like a gritty, grimdark world where the rich feast and the poor pick up the scraps.
4) So Many Things To Keep Track Of
There’s a lot going on in this game and a lot to keep track of. Characters have to think about where their armour is covering them, how many fate, fortune, resilience and resolve points they have, lingering wounds from critical hits, whether or not there’s an infection from those wounds, and corruption from Chaotic influences. All of this on top of the encumbrance packed on their backs. It can be overwhelming. Fortunately there are a ton of optional rules to reduce the amount bookkeeping, simplifying armour points, and reminding the GM they can ignore encumbrance as they see fit. But out of the box the game gives you a lot of to keep track of, especially between adventures.
5) Progressive-ish
I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting to find a game full of inclusivity, and I didn’t. Well, not entirely. There were a few pleasant surprises. For starters, there are no “races”. Instead they have been rebranded as species which is a welcome change and way more accurate. They also explicitly state that regardless of the name of the career, it’s open to everyone. Yes, we all know that anyone can be a “Townsman”, but it’s nice to see it in writing. It’s also nice to see at least a couple of careers with female-gendered titles. Seeing Nun instead of Monk, and Riverwoman was a pleasant surprise. It is about a fifty/fifty split between male and female career examples (at least until they get to the soldiers). There’s also a surprising amount of people of color displayed. That was one of the biggest surprises. Not to say there is equal representation (it’s still overwhelmingly white), but seeing a black man as a Noble was a treat. It should also be said that ethnic diversity in the setting is something that hasn’t been well communicated from Games Workshop or other IP holders to consumers (myself included). The Empire, especially in the east, has a wide array of skin-tones and isn’t the pasty Germanic nation that I previously thought it was.
That’s not to say that representation is perfect. As I’ve said before, it’s overwhelmingly white and gender representation slips. There’s also the nagging lore bits that type-cast non-human species. Dwarfs hang on to grudges, High Elves are aloof, Halflings like to eat, and Wood Elves are wild and xenophobic. There are “good” and “bad” species. There’s a ton of intolerance too. Xenophobia, sex-negativity (thanks Slaanesh), and a deeply ingrained fear of the different are baked into the setting. But I suppose it wouldn’t be grimdark, and therefore Warhammer, if it wasn’t there.
6) Organization and Clarity
The book can be a bit scattershot and unclear. There are places where one would expect to find particular rules, but they aren’t there, or you have to go searching for a trail of breadcrumbs to find the appropriate rules. As an example, the rules for Size begin in the combat section, but are more fully fleshed out in the Bestiary section. This isn’t too unreasonable, but the specific rules for how size affect damage (Damaging and Impact) are found in the weapons rules. One would also expect to find Injuries and Critical Wounds immediately after determining damage, but they’re preceded by movement, conditions, and Fate and Resilience. None of this is to say that the organization lacks logic, but it could use improvement.
Where the editorial team did fail, however, was clarity. The book lacks clear examples of how rules work in actual play, and can be contradictory at times. It would’ve been really nice to have at least one example of how combat actually plays out or how to build enough advantage to cast a tough spell. There are also rules that could be a bit clearer. The worst example is on off-hand penalties for defending. At one point the rules seem to indicate that the penalty only applies on attacks, but weapons in the parry group ignore that penalty. Overall, there is nothing so egregious that a well written and thought out FAQ and Errata couldn’t fix, but it’s disappointing that the book requires on at all.
Despite the fiddly bits and lack of clarity, this game is fantastic. Veteran gamers can grok it in a session, though newcomers might take a little more time. It’s worth it, because when they pick it up combat flies by and turns into the lethal character grinder that veteran WFRP players expect. If gritty and lethal isn’t your thing, this isn’t the game for you. But if you’re a fan of the Old World, or want to keep get a little dirtier than your favorite game, pick up the new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay here.
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7 Settings To Draw NPCs Into Ravenloft
Welcome back to the Ravenloft Corner!
Veteran gamers are familiar with the horrible dread that accompanies every sudden fog, knowing it could whisk them away from their comfortable campaign setting and into the nightmare that is Ravenloft. This is far from an isolated event, of course: most of the iconic NPCs of the setting are drawn from one or more existing campaign worlds, including Darklords such as Soth, Harkon Lukas, and Hazlik. Faerun, Greyhawk, al-Qadim, Dragonlance, Birthright: all these realms and more have been harvested for human occupants to bring to the Demiplane of Dread.
However, the Mists are not limited to D&D settings--they can reach anywhere. This makes Ravenloft the ideal realm for crossover stories. The sinister possibilities are endless. Jedi, gunslingers, or mad scientists: the sky's the limit if you really want to bring elements from one game setting into your Ravenloft campaign.
Alternately, instead of bringing another game into Ravenloft, you can introduce Ravenloft to another setting. Back in the day, being snatched away to the Demiplane of Dread for a single adventure was a common enough occurrence that it even had a name: Weekend in Hell adventures. For many other tabletop RPGs, this type of adventure can be just the thing to break up a stale routine.
To get you started, here are a few of my favorite possibilities for locations that you could bring an NPC or two from without breaking the setting egregiously.
1 -Star Wars
While lightsabers and blasters would be horrendously out of place, a single force-user would not be. Imagine the horror for a Jedi who escaped Order 66 only to find himself consumed by a bizarre stellar phenomenon which spat him out in Ravenloft. Now alone, in a world without the technology to which he is accustomed, he must battle against strange and arcane threats, with the inescapable feeling that this entire realm throbs with the pulse of the Dark Side. He can always sense malignant beings pulling the strings behind seemingly mundane misfortunes, but can never quite pin down their presence. Of course, the Dark Side would be much easier to tap into in Ravenloft, presenting him with an eternal temptation of vast power in exchange for his allegiance.
2- Doctor Who
Although all the Time Lords in our universe are gone (save for a couple), there were many at one point. As a race with a penchant for getting themselves stuck in pocket dimensions or alternate universes, it's not inconceivable one of them could have made it to Ravenloft. (It seems quite likely that at least one of House's victims might have had the wherewithal to fashion some means to escape House's pocket dimension, albeit to the even-less-inviting environment of the Mists.) Stuck with only the technology of the era, such a being might embody the nobler instincts of their kind, traveling the domains and righting wrongs. Of course, they might also fall prey to the obsession and hubris that frequently grips their race, drifting towards Mordent and the possibility of finding a way home amid the 'new science' of Dr. Mordenheim.
3- World of Darkness
Even without the Mists capturing someone against their will, the World of Darkness has plenty of ways for an unwitting character to find their way to Ravenloft. The Deep Umbra, the Far Realms, and arcane accidents of any variety could land a character in the setting. Characters from Vampire: The Dark Ages or Werewolf: The Wild West wouldn't even find themselves horribly out of place. Many tradition mages or changelings would be right at home as well. A pack of werewolves would have the fight of their lives in Verbrek, where virtually every inhabitant is fighting on the same level as they are. On the other hand, how much more dangerous would Strahd be while served by a small clan of Revenants, their own innate disciplines augmented by his potent blood?
4- Deadlands
Another setting with many gateways to alternate settings (crossovers with Call of Cthulu and Werewolf aren't just possible, they're canon adventures), posses from the Weird West could easily find their way to Ravenloft. Perhaps they even discover some dark connection between the Dark Powers and the Reckoners? Although their technology might be a bit out of place in, say, Darkon, the firearms of the period aren't so odd as to be fantastical to those of the western core. To fit with the diabolical nature of the realm, of course, 'black' magic such as hexes, mad science, and the undead abilities of the Harrowed should be more potent than normal, with the concurrent penalty of attention from the Dark Powers. Maybe it's even more likely to come back as Harrowed, if not so easy to maintain Dominion...
5- Harry Potter
Let's face it, magical accidents are obscenely common in the world of Harry Potter. Fortunately, magical denizens of that realm will find Ravenloft to be no huge adjustment. The need to hide themselves from non-magical beings will already be second nature, but the existence of the supernatural will be as well. In many ways, these witches or wizards might have an easier time blending in than outlanders from standard D&D settings do!
6- Warhammer 40k
While this one might seem unusual for such a high-sci-fi setting, it's actually fairly easy. Remember that the many worlds in the Imperium have a huge technological spectrum, broader even than that in Ravenloft. Characters from low-tech worlds (Inquisitorial retinues or Imperial Guard conscripts) make the easiest possibilities, since they are already ready to accept magic as fact, and are perfectly willing to accept having been pulled through a warp storm into a demon world with belief (although maybe not much happiness). The immensely powerful psychics of the Eldar race might send a single advance scout through a forgotten Webway gate, hoping to find a new location to colonize. Of course, such a scout could never report back and would be stranded in this strange new world. Perhaps most frightening is the notion of a transpossession victim manifesting not the aura of a succubus or the spikes of an osyluth, but the weeping sores of a plaguebearer or the mind-numbing allure of a keeper of secrets.
7- Mayhem
The world of the Mayhem game system bears much in common with Ravenloft and other D&D settings: there is a general medieval feel, the presence of magical beings, and a general lack of advanced technology. The Crimson Realms, as they are known, are far more open about their strangeness than other settings and Outlanders from that world would face several challenges. The bestial races would have to conceal their true nature, or be mistaken for escapees from the clutches of Frantisek Markov. The demonic and celestial races would be pursued diligently by hunters familiar with transpossession, or by Darklords, respectively. Even the fae or elemental races would find persecution in places like Darkon or Tepest.
In Closing
That's far from an exhaustive list, of course. Crossover potential is ripe in some of the best known franchises of nerd culture, such as Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time, the Dark Tower series, or Middle Earth, as well as some more obscure ones that your PCs might not be familiar with, such as John Peel's Diadem series or the worlds of Robin Hobb. Whether you draw PCs or NPCs from such realms, crossovers remain an integral part of the Ravenloft formula, and the Weekend in Hell will remain a constant threat to PCs in any and every other game.
Hopefully, Frankie Drakeson will be back from his sabbatical next month, but until then, safe travels.
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STEM City planned for Hill air, space show
75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs / Published May 25, 2018
The Warriors Over The Wasatch Air and Space Show June 23-24, 2018, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, features a STEM City. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Kent Bingham)
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- On June 23-24, Hill Air Force Base with the tremendous support from the Utah Air Show Foundation, will host the “Warriors Over the Wasatch: The Legacy Continues” Air and Space Show featuring the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.
In addition to the numerous world-class aerial acts and wide variety of static displays this year’s event will also feature a STEM City.
The area will be an exciting display of hands-on booths to encourage students and educate parents on opportunities in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math, said Allison Sturgeon, Hill AFB STEM coordinator.
Planned for the STEM City is an F-35 simulator presented by Lockheed Martin. In addition, Utah’s own “Diesel Brothers” featured on the Discovery Channel will have trucks on display and the Hill Aerospace Museum education staff will provide an hourly stage show on STEM.
Other exhibits curently scheduled include BAE, Orbital ATK, the Utah STEM Bus, Utah STEM Action Center, Clark Planetarium, Leonardo, Rube Goldberg competition winners, a Mission to Mars exhibit, STARBASE, USTAR, IM Flash, Northrop Grumman, Air Force Association, STEM 101, Centeva, Haight Bey & Associates, Girls Go Digital, Weber State University, Davis Technical College, Ogden-Weber Technical College, Southern Utah University, University of Utah, Utah State University, and Rocky Mountain Power.
The show is estimated to draw 500,000 visitors over the weekend, while generating upwards of $50 million of economic stimulus for the surrounding communities.
Gates open at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. Aerial performances are scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday.
Visit www.hill.af.mil for a full list of performers, scheduled events, security/restricted items, transportation/parking information, and other details.
(No federal endorsement of the companies, schools or associations mentioned in this article is intended.)
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Bardo Owner Still Eyes Spring Opening for Navy Yard Beer Garden
by Andrew Ramonas February 24, 2016 at 10:50 am 1 Comment
Bardo Riverfront in Navy Yard is still on track to open this spring, after facing some opposition from locals.
The beer garden might start serving customers as early as this April at 25 Potomac Ave. SE between Nationals Park and the Anacostia River, owner Bill Stewart told Hill Now yesterday. But he wasn’t sure yet if it would be ready for the Nationals home opener on April 7.
The beer garden will have beers brewed on-location and space for food trucks, according to a liquor license application from Stewart. The two-acre lot also will host as a dog park, bike shop and open green space.
“It’s moving forward,” Stewart said.
Last fall, Stewart applied for a liquor license for a scaled-down version of the “BeerDisneyLand” he intends to create for Bardo Riverfront.
Stewart originally submitted an application to the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration in March 2015 for a beer garden that would hold a maximum of 2,000 people. However, that application was rescinded due to concerns about unruly crowds, noise levels and security concerns.
He since has said he will cap the maximum total occupancy for the beer garden at 750 people and has made other changes to address concerns from community leaders and police.
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Hyundai Motor Group Executive Vice Chairman Identifies Key Steps to Accelerate Transition to Hydrogen Society
SEOUL, January 21, 2019 — Hyundai Motor Group Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) and Hydrogen Council Co-chair Euisun Chung has identified three key steps to accelerate the transition to a hydrogen society during the Hydrogen Council’s third annual CEO Meeting in Paris, France.
Veloster N Awarded 2020 Most Fun-to-Drive Car of the Year by Cars.com
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 – Today, Cars.com awarded the 2020 Hyundai Veloster N with the 2020 Most Fun-to-Drive Car of the Year award, an accolade given annually to a model that’s defined by how fun it is to drive, on the racetrack or off. The Veloster N was up against an array of fun-to-drive contenders, including the 2020...
Hyundai Awarded Two Engine Honors in Wards 10 Best Engines and Propulsion Systems Competition
DETROIT, Jan. 16, 2020 – For a second consecutive year in a row, Hyundai earns two out of the ten coveted spots in the 2020 Wards 10 Best Engines and Propulsion Systems competition. Featured in Hyundai’s all-new Sonata sedan, the new Smartstream 1.6L Turgocharged - GDi engine and a repeat for the 2020 Kona Electric powertrain are named to...
Hyundai and Kia Make Strategic Investment in Arrival to Co-develop Electric Commercial Vehicles
SEOUL, January 15, 2020 – Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation today announced a strategic investment of €100 million (US $110 million) in a new partnership with Arrival, a UK-based electric vehicle startup.
Hyundai Palisade Earns 2019 CarBuzz Family Fun Award
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 15, 2020 – The 2020 Hyundai Palisade has earned the 2019 CarBuzz Family Fun Award from CarBuzz.com. The Family Fun Award is aimed at vehicles that can accommodate families of all sizes while still being fun-to-drive. To qualify for the award, vehicles must have an MSRP of under $40,000. Hyundai’s all-new...
Hyundai Motor Takes Human-Centered Mobility Vision to New Heights at CES 2020
SEOUL, January 14, 2020 – Hyundai Motor Company demonstrated its future mobility vision at the recent CES 2020 exhibition (Jan. 7 - 10), showing three innovative platforms focused on meeting transportation demands in growing cities.
Hyundai's Super Bowl LIV Commercial to Star Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Rachel Dratch and David Ortiz
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 13, 2020 – Those looking to be entertained by the Super Bowl commercials this year will be treated to a star-studded, Boston-themed spot from Hyundai. The 60-second comedic ad that will run in the first quarter of the game will feature a cast of well-known Boston celebrities including Chris Evans, John Krasinski,...
Hyundai Venue Launched to U.S. Media in Miami, Florida
MIAMI, January 10, 2020 – Hyundai introduces the latest addition to its U.S. SUV family, the Hyundai 2020 Venue, at an exclusive media event in Miami, Florida. Venue is packed with premium driver safety and convenience technologies with a seamless combination of style and versatility. Venue joins its larger SUV siblings, including the 2019...
CES 2020: Hexagon, Hyundai and Valeo Unveil a High-Precision Vehicle Positioning System to Make Roads Safer
Las Vegas, January 8, 2020 – At CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Hyundai, Hexagon’s Positioning Intelligence Division- the leader in high-precision GPS technology, Valeo, the world number one in driving assistance systems, and a major mobile network operator will present a new technology capable of pinpointing a vehicle’s exact location while on...
Hyundai Uber Aerial Ridesharing Partnership Ceremony
LAS VEGAS, January 7, 2020 – Hyundai Motor Company and Uber have announced a new partnership to develop Uber Air Taxis for a future aerial ride share network and unveiled a new full-scale aircraft concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Hyundai Motor Presents Smart Mobility Solution 'UAM-PBV-Hub' to Vitalize Future Cities
LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2020 – Hyundai Motor Company has unveiled at CES 2020 its innovative vision for urban mobility to help vitalize human-centered future cities. To realize the vision, Hyundai Motor showcased three mobility solutions, comprising Urban Air Mobility (UAM), Purpose Built Vehicle (PBV) and Hub, a place for mobility transfer and...
Uber and Hyundai Motor Announce Aerial Ridesharing Partnership, Release New Full-Scale Air Taxi Model at CES
LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2020 – Uber and Hyundai Motor Company have today announced a new partnership to develop Uber Air Taxis for a future aerial ride share network and unveiled a new full-scale aircraft concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Hyundai is the first automotive company to join the Uber Elevate initiative, bringing...
Hyundai's All-New Vision for Mobility and Cities of the Future Presented at CES 2020 - Live Streamed Press Conference
Watch the livestream of Hyundai’s CES 2020 press conference on its home page or YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6QJogKlNsk starting at 3:00 p.m. PT on January 6, 2020. The press conference can be viewed by media in person at Mandalay Bay / Level 2 / Oceanside B Ballroom.
Bryan Herta Autosport Announces Three Car Program for 2020 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge
Daytona Beach, Fl., Jan 3, 2020 – Bryan Herta Autosport (BHA) with Curb Agajanian, the 2019 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge (IMPC) champions, announced today they will enter three Hyundai Veloster N TCR’s in the 2020 IMPC championship.
Hyundai Motor America Reports December 2019 and Total Year Sales
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 3, 2020 – Hyundai Motor America reported total December sales of 64,720 units, a slight 1% decrease in comparison with December 2018.
Dade-Broward Hyundai Dealers and Miami International Auto Show Present 2020 Hyundai Sonata to Giveaway Winner
MIAMI, Dec. 20, 2019 –The Dade-Broward Hyundai Dealers and the Miami International Auto Show awarded the lucky winner of the auto show’s consumer giveaway with an all-new Hyundai Sonata just in time for the Holiday season. A South Florida resident was presented with this year’s vehicle giveaway— a 2020 Hyundai Sonata SEL Plus with a...
Hyundai Motor Presents Vision for Human-Centered Future Cities through Smart Mobility Solutions at CES 2020
Seoul, December 19, 2019 – Hyundai Motor will take the stage at CES 2020 to present its vision for mobility and cities of the future.
Hyundai Sonata and Palisade Win Driving Today's Best Car Buy of the Year Awards
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 18, 2019 – Hyundai’s 2020 Sonata and 2020 Palisade earned Best Car Buy Awards from Driving Today for the categories of Best Family Car and Best Family SUV. Best Car Buy Awards go to the best vehicles in 9 different categories following months of in-depth research and testing by the experts at DrivingToday.com,...
Hyundai Awards Santa Clara University's Office of Sustainability with a $100,000 Grant
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 9, 2019 – Last month, Hyundai collaborated with three California universities to host the Fill It Forward Challenge. The competition challenged students and faculty members from Pepperdine University, Loyola Marymount University, and Santa Clara University to opt for reusable instead of plastic water bottles....
Hyundai Palisade Awarded Cars.Com SUV Challenge Winner
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 9, 2019 – The 2020 Hyundai Palisade has been named the winner of the Three-row SUV Challenge by Cars.com.
Hyundai Motor America Reports November 2019 Sales
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Dec. 3, 2019 – Hyundai Motor America reported total November sales of 60,601 units, a 6% increase in comparison with November 2018.
Hyundai Motor to Establish Its First Indonesian Manufacturing Plant
SEOUL, November 26, 2019 — Hyundai Motor Company today announced it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Indonesian government to build its first manufacturing plant in the country.
Brian K. Latouf Joins Hyundai Motor North America as Chief Safety Officer
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 25, 2019 – Hyundai Motor North America has named Brian K. Latouf as its new chief safety officer. In this position, he will be responsible for all safety regulation matters, strategic legal direction and oversight of all safety and emission investigations and recalls in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. He officially...
Hyundai's Michael O'Brien Named a 2019 Automotive News All-Star
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 25, 2019 – Michael O’Brien, the vice president of Product, Corporate and Digital planning for Hyundai Motor America, was named a 2019 Automotive News All-Star in the product development category. This esteemed award is an annual selection of outstanding individuals who are leaders in the highly competitive...
Hyundai Sonata and Palisade Named Finalists for 2020 North American Car and Utility of the Year
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 22, 2019 – The 2020 Hyundai Sonata and Palisade models were named among the top-three finalists for the prestigious 2020 North American Car of the Year and Utility of the Year awards. This is the second consecutive year that a Hyundai model has been nominated to the finalist round, with the 2019 Hyundai Kona and...
Hyundai Kona, Kona Electric and Santa Fe Win 2020 Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 21, 2019 – Hyundai’s 2020 Kona, 2020 Kona Electric and 2020 Santa Fe earned Best Buy Awards from the experts at Kelley Blue Book for the categories of Best Subcompact SUV, Best Electric Car and Best Midsize SUV – 2-Row. Best Buy Awards go to the best vehicles in 17 categories following weeks of expert...
Hyundai Wins Two 2020 Hispanic Motor Press Awards During Automobility LA
LOS ANGELES, CA., Nov. 20, 2019 – The Hispanic Motor press Awards (HMPA), announced each year during Automobility LA, named the 2020 Hyundai Sonata and Santa Fe best new vehicles in their category for Hispanic families. The 10th annual awards, announced today and opening the press schedule, recognized the best new vehicles of 2020 for...
Hyundai Reveals Vision T Plug-in Hybrid SUV Concept at 2019 AutoMobility LA
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20, 2019 – Hyundai today unveiled its innovative Vision T Plug-in Hybrid SUV Concept at 2019 AutoMobility LA. The Vision T is the seventh in a series of Hyundai Design Center concepts expressing Hyundai’s evolving Sensuous Sportiness global design language. “We pursue innovative solutions in design and add emotional...
2020 IONIQ Shows off Fresh Styling, Upgraded Interior and More Electric Range at Los Angeles Auto Show
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20, 2019 – Hyundai today introduced its redesigned eco-friendly IONIQ car lineup in a North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. IONIQ Hybrid, Plug-in Hybrid and Electric cars all receive refreshed exterior and interior designs, added infotainment technology and new Hyundai SmartSense™ active safety features and...
Hyundai N Brand Reveals All-New RM19 Racing Midship Sports Car Prototype
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20, 2019 – Hyundai Motor Company today introduced the RM19 Racing Midship Sports Car to global media at 2019 AutoMobility LA. RM refers to the N prototype model’s “Racing Midship” body configuration, a key differentiator providing supercar-level handling balance and low-polar-moment-of-inertia agility for outstanding...
Live Broadcast from Los Angeles Auto Show Debuts Five Hyundai Vehicles and will Feature Actor Josh Duhamel
Watch the livestream of Hyundai’s AutoMobility LA press conference on its home page or YouTube channel at https://hyundaius.co/LAAS2019 starting at 9:40 a.m. PT (12:40 p.m. ET) on Nov. 20, 2019. The livestream will also air on Hyundai Motor America’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram accounts. The press conference can be viewed by...
Hyundai Confirms Super Bowl LIV Advertising
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 18, 2019 – Hyundai Motor America, who has set the standard in automotive Super Bowl advertising over the past decade, will be back with an in-game spot for the 12th time in the past 13 years. Hyundai will again aim to make a connection with consumers with a new 60-second ad that will run in the first quarter of...
Hyundai Motor Group Launches Future Mobility Venture MoceanLab
November 14, 2019 – Hyundai Motor Group today established MoceanLab, a mobility service venture, as part of the Group’s larger initiative to create a sustainable, connected future. MoceanLab will provide mobility services in the City of Los Angeles, and expand its services to autonomous ridesharing, shuttling, multimodal transportation, and...
Hyundai Santa Cruz to Be Built at Montgomery, Alabama Plant
Montgomery, Ala. November 13, 2019 – Today, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA) announced the Santa Cruz compact utility vehicle will join the Santa Fe SUV and the Sonata and Elantra sedans at Hyundai’s U.S. automotive assembly plant in Montgomery, starting in 2021. The Santa Cruz was first introduced as a concept at the 2015 North...
Hyundai Provides Teaser of its Ground-breaking SUV Concept for 2019 AutoMobility LA
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13, 2019 – Hyundai Motor today shared a teaser video and images of its innovative Plug-in Hybrid SUV Concept for 2019 AutoMobility LA. The concept is the seventh in a series of Hyundai Design Center concepts expressing increasing Emotional Value to Hyundai’s evolving Sensuous Sportiness global design language.
Hyundai to Carry Thule Brand Accessories in Dealerships Nationwide
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 12, 2019 – Thanks to a new partnership announced today, Hyundai owners can now purchase Thule’s vehicle bike racks, roof racks, winter and water sport racks, and other cargo carriers and basket accessories directly from participating Hyundai dealers nationwide. Thule accessories can transport sports equipment...
2020 Hyundai Sonata Awarded "Sedan of the Show" in Miami
MIAMI, Nov. 12, 2019 – The Hyundai Sonata was named “Sedan of the Show” by the Southern Automotive Media Association (SAMA) at the 49th annual Miami International Auto Show. The award was given at the association’s annual auto show luncheon and awards presentation at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Determined by a panel of judges...
2020 Hyundai Veloster Named "Fan Favorite" at the 2019 AutoFOCUS Awards
MIAMI, Nov., 11, 2019 – The Hyundai Veloster was named “Fan Favorite” at the 2019 AutoFOCUS Awards held at the 49th annual Miami International Auto Show. The award was announced at the annual auto show awards presentation and networking event held during opening weekend at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
New 2020 Sonata with Striking Design and Loads of Standard Safety Technology Starting At $23,400
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Nov. 7, 2019 – Hyundai Motor America has announced prices for the all-new 2020 Sonata. The completely redesigned 2020 Sonata delivers enhanced fuel efficiency, technology and advanced standard safety features at a starting price of $23,400 for the well-equipped SE model. The value-driven SEL model starts at $25,500 and the...
Hyundai to Expand Its Eco-focused Product Lines to 13 by 2022
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 7, 2019 – Hyundai today announced its commitment to introduce 13 alternatively fueled vehicles by 2022, including six sedans and seven SUVs. Upcoming highlights from this eco-friendly commitment include a refreshed 2020 Ioniq Electric, Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid to be revealed later this month at the Los Angeles Auto...
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Watch Madrid Open Quarterfinals Live: Rafael Nadal vs Grigor Dimitrov Live Streaming Information
Rafael Nada has won the title four times in the past.
By : Ashim Sunam
May 8, 2015 16:43 IST
Grigor Dimitrov defeated Stan Wawrinka to reach the quarterfinals of the competitionReuters
Rafael Nadal has looked very comfortable in the Madrid Open so far with cruising victories, but the Spaniard will face a stern test in the form of Grigor Dimitrov on Friday during the quarter-finals of the competition.
Dimitrov, who is seeded 10th in the competition, has also maintained good form and will be a confident player after his victory over eighth seed Stan Wawrinka in the third round. The Bulgarian showed a lot of character in his match against Wawrinka, which was stretched to three sets. The score read 6-7, 6-3 and 3-6.
If the 10th seed comes up with a repeat performance, the Spaniard needs to come up with his A class game as well to reach the semis of the competition. Nadal is aware that the game is not going to be an easy one against Dimitrov.
"Everything worries me about Dimitrov," ATP's official website quoted Nadal as saying. "He's a very good player. The only way to beat him is to play at really high level. I think he has had more difficult matches than me this week. That's an advantage for him. Let's see what happens. I hope to be ready for it, but I know Dimitrov is a fantastic player and a player that can win against everybody. Great talent."
Rafael Nadal has always been one of the favourites to lift the Madrid Open as he has already clinched the title four times in his career. He is the defending champion as well.
But, Nadal has been under par season, compared to previous seasons. He has only won one ATP title so far in 2015.
With Madrid Open being played on his favourite clay surface, the Spaniard is expected to get back to his winning ways as well, as he is the best player on clay.
The Bulgarian has also not had an impressive year so far with his final four finish in Brisbane International being his best. After defeating Wawrinka, it will not be a surprise if he creates another shock.
Dimitrov knows what to expect from the player as well.
"I know what to expect from him and we all know what I'm going to put out there on the court, which is going to be a great performance," said Dimitrov.
"It's one of those days where I really want to be out there on the court, playing against him on clay. I feel like I have been playing good tennis, so why not go out there and have fun, but at the same time, I know why I'm out there."
Where to Watch Live
The quarter-final clash between Rafael Nadal and Grigor Dimitrov is scheduled to start at 3:30pm local time (7pm IST, 9:30am ET, 2:30pm BST) with live coverage in India on Ten Sports.
Viewers in the US can watch it on Tennis Channel, while the UK viewers can catch it live on Sky Sports 3.
People around the world can stream it live from the official website.
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